ived that’s why being alone and special is the key of finding God in that sense.Being a chosen one is a puritanist approach so Defoe reflects his prutanist ideas by mentioning this. According to Defoe crowd takes people away from basic realities of life.We can see this thought in both book of him, Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders .In Robinson Crusoe when he is in England he doesnt think of God and religion much, society makes him irreligious and careless.However when he decieds to go far and starts his journey , a transformation comes into being in his philosophy.The time that he spends in the island supplies the most effective enviroment him to reform his thoughts and beliefs.As we see in the following quotation: “..What is this earth and sea, of which I have seen so much?Whence is it produced?And what am I, and all the other creatures, wild and tame ,human and brutal, whence are we?Sure we are all made by some secret Power that could make all things, must certainly have power to guide and direct them...” He has his own way of judging.He realizes some religious facts but never submits them blindly.Robinson Crusoe as a man who comes from typical English society and modern world combines the facts of society of his time, its moral understanding and the facts of pure faith that he found himself.Doing this synthesis he sometimes contradicts modern world’s vision therefore critisizes its policy, such as by saying: “..the policy of making a secret religion in order to preserve the veneration of the people to the clergy is not only to be found in the Roman, but perhaps among all religions in the world, even among the most brutish and barbarous savage.” Defoe being a Protestant also critisizes Christianty but especialy Catholicism, accord,ng to him Catholicism is the lowest level of religion.Actually this idea comes from his prutanist beliefs.According to Prutanism there is only God and human ...
