The existentialism studies on Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe’s freedom of life

The research entitled The Existentialism Studies on Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe’s Freedom of Life is conducted upon Daniel Defoe classic literary work Robinson Crusoe. Starting from the researcher’s interest on both the novel and Existentialism thought that, the character always try to realize his existence and his struggle to gain for freedom of life. This study focuses its analysis upon two significant problems, which lead to the objectives, those are finding the way of Robinson Crusoe to defend his existence and find out the relationship between Existentialism and freedom of choice.

A literary criticism which takes from the descriptive technique is applied. The data are obtained entirely from the novel. Beginning from the interest on Existentialism thought, the researcher uses Existentialism theory in order to find out the existentialism aspects of the novel, especially on its major character.

Ultimately, the objectives of the study are made out. Observing the novel with the Existentialism philosophical study, the researcher comes to the final conclusion. It is concluded that, the way of Robinson Crusoe’s to defend his existence is related much to the existentialism aspect. All of his effort to realize his own life based on his own choice freely, it can be seen as a complete existence. Moreover, in his struggle to survive his life, he also find himself in alienation or estrangement, anxiety, nothingness feeling, and getting his freedom, all of these also mean to get his own existence. Whereas the relationship between Existence and freedom of choosing, the researcher has a similar idea. Both of them are influenced each others, on the other hand, they are including to the Existentialism themes. In short, using Existentialism theory to analyze Robinson Crusoe is very comfortable.