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1、Summary RobinsonCrusoeItisastoryabout ayouth,namedRobinsonCrusoe,whobrokeshisparents’ expectionthatbeingalawyerandbyhisownhandsbecomesasuccessfulbussinesmaninBrazil.However,ononeofhistradevoyageAterribleshipwreckoccursandRobinsonistheonlysurvivor.Hemanagestomakeittot
2、heshoreofanislandRobinsonremainsontheislandfortwenty-sevenyears.Inthattime,herecreateshisEnglishlife,buildinghomes,necessities,learninghowtocook,raisegoatsandcrops.About15yearslater,heseesafootprint,andlaterobservescannibalisticsavageseatingprisoners.Theydon'tliveont
3、heisland;someyearslatertheyreturn. Usinghisguns,CrusoescaresthemawayandsavesayoungsavagewhomhenamesFriday. Forsomeyearsthetwolivehappily. Thenafterafewyears,aexploringboatofPortuguesemencomesashore.Crusoemakesanagreementwiththecaptain. Fridayandhearefinallytakent
4、oEngland.AndRobinsonreturnstotheEnglishcountrysideandsettlesthere,marryingandhavingthreechildren.Whenhiswifedies,heoncemoregoestothesea.HamletThe tragedy of Hamlet is a tragedy of losses. A son’s loss of his father. A child’s abandonment by his mother. A man’s reject
5、ion by his lover. A loss of friendship. The loss of lives, and finally the loss of a country. All of these losses are tragic within themselves but the ultimate tragedy is that each one contained within itself the seeds of its own making. The seeds of destruction are
6、sown and grow to produce the tragedies of loss that lie scattered through the play like the flowers on Ophelia’s coffinTheHistoryofTomJones,aFoudlingTomJonesisafoundlingdiscoveredonthepropertyofaverykind,wealthylandowner,SquireAllworthy,inSomersetinEngland'sWestCount
7、ry.Tomgrowsintoavigorousandlusty,yethonestandkind-hearted,youth.Hedevelopsaffectionforhisneighbour'sdaughter,SophiaWestern.Ononehand,theirlovereflectstheromanticcomedygenrethatwaspopularin18th-centuryBritain.However,Tom'sstatusasabastardcausesSophia'sfatherandAllwort
8、hytoopposetheirlove;thiscriticismofclassfrictioninsocietyactedasabitingsocialcommentary.Theinclusionofprostitutionandsexualpromiscu
