Is Crusoe an unchanging character, or does he change in subtle as a result of his ordeal?

... In many ways Crusoe appears to be the same sort of person at the end of the novel as he is at the beginning. Despite decades of solitude and exile, mutiny and war with cannibals, Crusoe hardly seems to grow or develop. Is Crusoe an unchanging character, or does he change in subtle as a result of his ordeal? Robinson Crusoe is a character we get to know extremely well, thanks to Daniel Defoe and his informative descriptions. Because of this we can see how Robinson's attitudes and beliefs may or may not change throughout the book. In this essay I will look at how they do or do not change, and decide on whether Robinson is a changing or unchanging character. "I was born in the year 1623, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner. Robinson narrates the book, and

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