The Accidental Plantation

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This paper compares Crusoe's efforts on his island with the guidelines Bacon sets out in his essay "On Plantations". The social structure of each story is examined individually and the compared to each other.

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Daniel DeFoe's The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) sets out to tell the story of one man's misadventures, predominately, Robinson Crusoe becoming stranded on a deserted, tropical island for nearly thirty years. Whether or not it was Daniel DeFoe's intent, he has Robinson Crusoe follow to some degree many of the precepts of a good plantation that Francis Bacon specifies in his 1625 essay "Of Plantations." Bacon believes that a good plantation will have a skilled, unforced labor base, a thought-out food production system, a monarchial government, and good relations with the indigenous peoples. Robinson Crusoe one man meets, to various degrees, nearly all of Bacon's plantation precepts."

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