Fan CastingRobinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is an Englishman of York in 17th century. Encouraged by his father to study law, Crusoe expresses his wish to go to sea instead. Initially, Robinson is committed to obeying his father, but he eventually embarks on a ship bound for London with a friend. When a storm causes the near deaths of Crusoe and his friend, Crusoe still goes on to set himself up as merchant on a ship leaving London. This trip is financially successful, and Crusoe plans another, leaving his early profits in the care of a friendly widow. The ship is seized by Moorish pirates, and Crusoe is enslaved to a potentate in Sallee. While on a fishing expedition, he and a slave boy break free and sail down the African coast. A kindly Portuguese captain picks them up, buys the slave boy from Crusoe, and takes Crusoe to Brazil. In Brazil, Crusoe establishes himself as a plantation owner and soon becomes successful. Eager for slave labor and its economic advantages, he embarks on a slave-gathering expedition to West Africa but ends up shipwrecked off of the coast of Trinidad. Crusoe is onlyone survivor. Returns to the wreck for guns, powder, food, finds goats, build a shelter. 1660, he is ill, hallucinates that an angel visits, warning him to repent. Drinking tobacco-steeped rum, Crusoe realizes that God has delivered him from his earlier sins. He saved native and named him Friday. On December 19, 1686, Crusoe boards the ship to return to England. His widow friend has kept Crusoe’s money safe.