Summary of Chapter 28

Ian Watt goes into how the book, Robinson Crusoe, is full of myths that reflect values in our culture, it does it with each of the stories, Faust, Don Juan and Don Quixote. Watt explains that Faust is the myth of the single-minded pursuit of knowledge, Don Juan is the myth of the single-minded pursuit of women and Don Quixote is the myth of the single-minded pursuit of "chivalric ideal". The myths in Crusoe's writings was done by the public and relating what they read to their own thinking anf ideals.