Sunday, 8 January 2017

Robinson Crusoe - Danial Defoe



Robinson Crusoe
-        Danial Defoe



       The novel ‘Robinson Crusoe’ was published in 1719.  It contains the sea voyages of Crusoe. He wanted to become a sailor and his father wanted him to become a lawyer or doctor. Crusoe has started his journey with disobedience and reached at the satisfaction.
    
       His first voyage was very terrible as he faced a stream and his ship broke down. He was alone on the island for 28 years and that was his real journey of life. He has spent his days with nature and started writing diary. He has collected the good and bad memories of his life with nature. He has constructed a house and collected food also.  He has started talking with animal and birds and domesticated goats and dog.
    
       The turning and important point in novel was his meeting with Friday who was a tribal man on island and later became servant of Crusoe. Crusoe has given him name ‘Friday’ because he met him on Friday. He also taught him manners, language and religion. He told Friday to call him Master and then he treated him as friend. Crusoe was white and all this process of giving name and teaching manner represents the master slave relationship. But soon he realised and came out of the mindset of colonizer and treated Friday as companion.
  
       The novel contains themes like, the ambivalence of mastery, importance of self-awareness, courage and determination and necessity of repentance.

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For journey of Crusoe – Click here

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