to earn some profits by selling them This voyage made Robinson both a sailor and a merchant Robinson says This was the only voyage which I may say was successful in all my adventures and which I owe to the honesty and integrity of my friend the Captain The speech is evidence of Crusoe s interest in money He buys goods sells them and finally earns a profit He acts like a trader Life of Adventure to Gain Name Fame and Money Robinson Crusoe abandons his parents advice and chooses the seafaring life He desires to be a prosperous and wealthy man in this way he wants to rise above the middle status of life The novel states the miserable condition of the middle-class family in England Crusoe is trying to be well off in the economic aspect of his life and it is the general tendency of the middle-class family of England Robinson Crusoe possesses a capitalistic tendency in his life He becomes a true materialistic man His economic individualism prevents him from paying heed to familial ties Selling Xury to the Portuguese Captain Again Robinson s economic motive makes him a commercial traveler Whenever he gets the opportunity he is involved in trade and commerce as a means of profit When he escapes from the Moors the Portuguese captain sets him up with a little capital with which Crusoe intends to run his trade Even he becomes heartless in selling his slave Xury to the captain He offered me also sixty pieces of eight more for my boy Xury which I was loth to take He becomes the owner of more money These are the examples of the economic implications of the novel Commercial Travel to Brazil Robinson considers his voyage to Brazil an economic success He learns about sugar plantations there He finds that sugar planters grow rich so he becomes a planter He imports labourers from Guinea Crusoe s activities in Brazil become typical of a white colonizer who was used to set up plantations in a far-off land The only aim of these Planters was to make money in a very short time Thus the voyage of Robinson Crusoe illustrates the economic aspect of colonialism Monetary Consideration in Desolate Island Even in his desolate condition on the remote island Crusoe does not forget his monetary consideration He regards himself as the master of the island and a rich man This materialistic note is evident when Crusoe says The land was now peopled and I thought myself very rich in subjects When Robinson reaches Lisbon and meets the Spanish captain of the ship he takes all the accounts of his property from him He declares that he will give one-third of his wealth to the king and two-thirds to St Augustine which will be spent for the benefit of the poor and the conversion of the Indians to the Catholic Faith Crusoe becomes ecstatic because of lots of money all around him In termination we can say that materialism and capitalism lie at the heart of the novel Robinson Crusoe Robinson seems to be a capitalist and an economic man Certainly the novel conveys an economic implication nbsp