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This is what I saw about Danielle Rousseau as little bit of a Jean-Jacques Rousseau figure:
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The character of Danielle Rousseau herself could be seen as a noble savage, having lived in the wilderness for many years, and now helping the survivors against the Others.
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... especially helping them remain free from the Others.
I poked around and learned a little more about the philosopher Rousseau. These aspects of Rousseau's philosophy would seem consistent with Danielle's role and her general attitude:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rousseau/
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The concern that dominates Rousseau's work is to find a way of preserving human freedom in a world where human beings are increasingly dependent on one another for the satisfaction of their needs. This concern has two dimensions: material and psychological, of which the latter has greater importance. In the modern world, human beings come to derive their very sense of self from the opinion of others, a fact which Rousseau sees as corrosive of freedom and destructive of individual authenticity. In his mature work, he principally explores two routes to achieving and protecting freedom....
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this too:
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[Although] Rousseau believes the co-existence of human beings in relations of equality and freedom is possible, he is consistently and overwhelmingly pessimistic that humanity will escape from a dystopia of alienation, oppression, and unfreedom. [...] Rousseau's appreciation of the wonders of nature and his stress on the importance of feeling and emotion made him an important influence on and anticipator of the romantic movement.
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Her isolation would certainly be a good way to try to escape that dystopia of alienation oppression bla bla bla. hehe.
In her self-enforced isolation and other things, Danielle resembles a romantic heroine.