What is the point of view, climax and main themes of “The Swiss Family Robinson”?
parkerlee Teacher eNotes Editor Answers to your three questions straight from enotes: point of view- (The father)… keeps a journal through the ten years of their confinement on the island, and at the end of the tale… climax – …he gives the manuscript to his sons Fritz and Francis/Franz who are leaving for Europe. His remarks as he hands over his journal reflect the purpose of the book, as well as late eighteenth-century ideas about religion and morality: themes – ‘It will make me happy to think that my simple narrative may lead some [children] to observe how blessed are the results of patient continuance in well-doing, what benefits arise from the thoughtful application of knowledge and science, and how good and pleasant a thing it is when brethren dwell together in unity, under the eye of the parental love.’ Several commentators have noted the influence of the philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) on the didactic, or moralizing, purpose of the narrative….Rousseau regar
