Robinson Crusoe

 

Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

Here are my views about The Robinson Crusoe:

Robinson Crusoe is novel written by Daniel Defoe. In this novel Defoe has wrote adventure of Crusoe that how he live an adventurous life.

This novel is based on fact. A man by the name of Alexander Selkirk spent many years upon a lonely island before returning home to Scotland.   Robinson Crusoe’s fictional autobiographical account of his twenty-eight years shipwrecked on a remote island against incredible odds is continued in The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and Serious Reflection During the Life and Surprising Adventure of Robinson Crusoe: with his vision of the angelic world. First published when he was almost sixty years old. 

Defoe is considered by many to have written the first English novel. He wrote Crusoe in the style of social realism in which he is the observant reporter, historian, humorist, and grand story teller. With his extraordinary bibliography comprising myriad historical, satirical and political writings, Defoe’s most famous novel was an immediate success. He was died in 24 April 1731 in London, England.                

 Here I am present my view about subaltern Theory.  "Subaltern" is a British word for someone of inferior military rank, and combines the Latin terms for "under"(sub) and "other"(alter). 

                         The novel "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe is based on fact. A man by the name of Alexander Selkirk spent many years upon a lonely island before returning home to Scotland. In this novel Defoe has tell about the relationship between Crusoe and Friday as master and slave.

                         In the novel the narrator and the central character is Crusoe. It deals with colonialism. Once Crusoe learns he is sole surviver of the expedition. He lives in lonely island for many years. He thought that he is the "King" of this island. Once he found some footprint of Cannibals. And he has saved life of Friday. Crusoe teaches him some English words and some elementary Christian concept. As we know that the colonial mind of White people they believe that they have only power of Society, Culture, etc. Here Crusoe is white man and Friday is African black man so Crusoe treated him as master.

                        Friday is the first person Crusoe introduces into the social order of the island. His name, of course , isn't Friday by birth, but this is the name given by Crusoe to him. The first and most obvious point about Friday's relationship with Crusoe is that Friday is Crusoe's subordinate. Friday always calls Crusoe as "Master". Crusoe also mentions that their relationship much like that of "a child to a father". In many ways Friday is the vibrant character in the novel, much more charismatic and colorful than Crusoe.

                          Through Friday's character Defoe has gave message to readers that how colonized people treated by colonizers.

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