Island in Robinson Crusoe, the Coral Island and Lord of...

Island in Robinson Crusoe, the Coral Island and Lord of the Flies Compare and Contrast the ways in which Robinson Crusoe, the Coral Island and Lord of the Flies present and develop the experience of being marooned on a desert island. Show how the texts reflect the ideas and beliefs of its own author and the period in which it was written. In all three novels a person or a group of people are marooned on a desert/tropical island. All three crash of scupper on or near the island they eventually live on. What is also important is that the islands are great distances from other civilisation and frequented shipping lanes. As such, the prospect of leaving the island or being rescued quickly is a distant one. All three†¦show more content†¦In the beginning, Crusoes isle is a prison, a hell from which he cannot escape. He thinks often of leaving the isle, escaping is solitude. He tries many schemes and ideas to leave the island, one of which is the construction of a boat/canoe from a log. This idea fails him. Later Crusoe comes to love the island, it becomes his home. He builds a small homestead that is house an d in times of danger his castle. He builds a garden which he cultivates and cares for. He makes a little England in the midst of a tropical landscape. As he is there for so long, 26 years, that he is galled at leaving. He feels that is his island, that he is its king or appointed governor. He has weathered the storm of faith and savages, wild animals and pirates and loves his home, which is what the island is to him. The boys in the Coral Island are the same, but a faster scale. They are on their island for a few months, at the most three quarters of a year. They feel a sadness at leaving their isle much more as it was never a prison or a hell to them. They liked their isle from the start, the loved the adventure. With the deaths of their crew neatly sweeped under the carpet they can enjoy the adventure of the isle. They also do not have a large sense of religious or divine interference in their stay on the isle. They are free to enjoy themselves