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.
For detailed
description of theme – Click here
For journey
of Crusoe – Click here
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