Robinson Crusoe characters

Robinson Crusoe

He is the main character in the novel Robinson Crusoe, written by the English writer Daniel Defoe. Robinson tells the story about him being on the desert island for 28 years and his willpower and incredible thirst for life. The man appears in the Novel as a middle-class guy, who lives in New York...

Friday

He is one of the main characters in Daniel Defoe’s novel. The man was a savage from the cannibal tribe. He was rescued by Robinson Crusoe on the twenty-fourth year of living on the island and named after the day it happened. Robinson describes him as a man of twenty-six years with a pleasant...

The Portuguese captain

The Portuguese captain is a white European, who rescued Robinson Crusoe and Xury after they left the island and escaped captivity. The day he saw them and decided to help, he was traveling to Brazil with some man on his own boat. This character doesn’t have a name, that makes him even more...

The Spaniard

The Spaniard is one of the men from a Spanish ship that crashes near the island where Crusoe lives for a long time. All the crew is rescued by cannibal tribe and taken to another island nearby. The Spaniard and the rest people from the ship are meant to be eaten as ritual victims, but, luckily...

Xury

He is the Arab or black boy who becomes Robinson Crusoe’s slave. Xury is briefly introduced in a book during the time when Crusoe is liberated from slavery in Sallee. When Robinson leaves the place, he takes another two slaves with him. He makes one of them swim to the shore, but leaves Xury...

The Widow

This character is briefly introduced in two separate occasions in the book. We don’t know much information about the woman, but we definitely can claim that she was kind, loyal and generous. These traits are strongly revealed in her devotion to Robinson Crusoe, as she took care of his...