Exploration of values ​​in Robinson Crusoe, The Odyssey, The Tempest and Gulliver's TravelsIn the novels and epic poems of Robinson Crusoe, The Odyssey, In The Tempest and Gulliver's Travels the reader meets an adventurer who ends up on an island for many years and then returns home. These four stories have another thing in common: they are all unusually popular. There is something very attractive to the popular imagination in such narratives. In this essay I will explore the vision of life (or at least some aspects of it) that this novel offers us and which is significantly different from the others, however apparently similar the narrative form may be. Roughly speaking, these four stories have a similar overall narrative structure which goes something like this: (a) a member of a sophisticated European society is accidentally cast adrift in a desert, where everything is unknown to him and there is no apparent help of normal society; (b) the hero must adapt to this strange environment, find some means to cope with physical and psychological dislocation; (c) the hero must find a way off the island, and (d) the hero must reintegrate into the society from which he has been involuntarily alienated. Drift can happen in many ways. It is typically the result of a shipwreck, mutiny, or misadventure of some kind. Adapting to the new environment may or may not involve adapting to the people who live there. This will almost always require the hero to confront a very different view of nature, and he will be forced to confront the fact that in this place things are very different from what he is used to. This, in turn, can yield al...... middle of the paper ......t what really matters and what doesn't. Therefore, adventures with the isolated are, or can easily become, an exploration of forced moral values. in the hero's awareness of an unusual circumstance. And this development inevitably brings with it a criticism or confirmation of the social values ​​(or some of them) of the society of which it is representative, which it brings with it to the island, and to which it returns. Prospero's rejection of the island and the magic he loves so much, like Odysseus' rejection of Calypso for his Penelope, is not only a manifestation of the hero's moral nature; it is also a confirmation of some values ​​in the society to which they are returning. Gulliver's rejection of European society upon his return at the end of the fourth voyage is, in large part, a very severe criticism of the moral laxity of Europe.