Visions of Utopia in Robinson Crusoe"Daniel Defoe achieved literary immortality when, in April 1719, he published Robinson Crusoe" (Stockton 2321). He dared to challenge the political, social and economic status quo of his time. By describing the utopian environment in which he was created in the absence of society, Defoe criticizes the political and economic aspect of English society, but is also able to show the narrator's relationship with nature in a vivid account of growth and development personal occurrences while you are stuck in solitude. Crusoe becomes “the universal representative, the person for whom any reader can stand in” (Coleridge 2318). "Thus, Defoe persuades us to see remote islands and the solitude of the human soul. Firmly believing in the solidity of the plot and its concreteness, he has subjected every other element to his design and has linked a whole universe in harmony" (Woolf 2303) . A common theme often represented in literature is that of the individual versus society. At the beginning of Robinson Crusoe, the narrator is concerned not with society, but with his family's view of how he was destined to fail in life if his parents' expectations of him taking over the family business had not been satisfied. However, Defoe's novel was somewhat autobiographical. “What Defoe wrote was intimately connected with the kind of life he led, with the friends and enemies he made, and with the natural interests of a merchant and a dissident” (Sutherland 2). These similarities are visible throughout the novel. “My father…gave me earnest and excellent advice against what he envisaged to be my design,” says Crusoe (Defoe 8-9). Like Crusoe, Defoe also rebelled against his parents. Unlike Crusoe, however, Defoe printed many essays and articles that rebelled against government and society, just as Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, did in England, describing society languishing in social malaise (Marowski 231). It was these writings that ultimately led to Defoe being accused of libel and imprisoned (DIScovering Authors). In Defoe's life it was the ministry that his father wanted him to undertake (Sutherland 2), but, instead, Defoe chose to become a merchant (DIScovering Biography). The depth of the relationship between Crusoe and his parents in the book was not specifically elaborated on because his parents became the symbol not only of all parents, but of society. By keeping this relationship ambiguous, Defoe is able to make Crusoe's sudden exodus much more believable and, therefore, more human..