Robinson Crusoe and the movie Caste Away

This paper will present an analysis of the filmmaking and symbolism of "Cast Away” and critically compare it with the novel “Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe's. The 2001 film "Cast Away" is appropriated from Daniel Defoe's classic novel, "Robinson Crusoe." The journeys and the main character in each work takes is different, forced isolation versus chosen, but have similar themes. The movie has it as a man 'Chuck' gets stranded on an island after a plane crash. For the next four years of his life, he is on the island by himself. Then one day, a shell of a porta-toilet washes up on shore, and Chuck is able to use it to make a makeshift boat, and brave the ocean once again. He is saved by a passing boat, and re-enters his life, only to find that the love that kept him alive, is now with another man. Similar to this scenario was the Robinson's story, who lived twenty-eight years alone on a deserted island off the coast of America near the mouth Orinoco River, after being cast ashore during a shipwreck which he was the only survivor and what happened to him when he was mysteriously issued by pirates.

In the novel, Robinson Crusoe, an English sailor, is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island after a shipwreck. Struggling against nature and isolation, he fights to avoid sinking into madness. His destiny changed when he saves a tribe of cannibals, a native of the island. He called it Friday.

The movie “Cast Away” has been successful in presenting concepts of island life, although part of it (the end) gives the Chuck's hunt for his lost love, something absent in the Daniel Defoe's novel. Daniel was inspired by a true story, that of Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor who lived alone on the island of Juan Fernandez, off the coast of Chile for four years, from 1705. To fight against despair and the destructive effects of loneliness, the character of Robinson attempts to recreate everything that is Western civilization. He survives on a daily work. Robinson Crusoe becomes turn to turn hunter, rancher, and gardener and ' converts ' Friday to Western culture. This story gave birth to a myth that many literary writers like Michel Tournier, will seek to rewrite.

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is the book that had the largest number of editions after the Bible. It is an enviable record, justified by the extraordinary fascination of a story, but scary (a man alone on a desert island for nearly 28 years). In short, 280 years after its publication without the author's name (London, April 1719), this work is still on target. The story, told in first person as if it were an autobiography, is indeed unique in its kind, even if designed and written by the author for an adult audience, it has become, for generations, a reading to children. Yet only adults are able to penetrate the ideological frame of this novel. An excerpt from ...