Assignment : Paper - 2 : Critical appreciation of Robinson Crusoe
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Name : Parmar Krupa Jivabhai
Roll No : 25
Enrollment No : 20691084201840
M.A.Sem - 1
Year : 2017-19
Email id : parmarkrupaj25@gmail.com
Paper No : 2
Submitted To : Department of English Bhavnagar
Topic : Critical appreciation of Robinson Crusoe
~ Introduction ~
Daniel Defoe was born in 1660, in London and was originally christened Daniel Foe; at the age of thirty five he changed his name. When he was young two major things happened in seventeen century: a recurrence of the plague and the great fire of London in 1666.In 1683, Defoe became a traveling hosiery salesman. His fiction reflects this interest; his characters Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe both changed their lives by voyaging far from their native England. In 1692 he was bankrupt and paid 17000 pounds in debts. In 1703, he was jailed in new gate prison. He also worked as a spy. He was a merchant, journalist, poet and prisoner. He published his first novel, “Robinson Crusoe” in 1719.He followed in 1722 with Moll Flanders Defoe died in London on April 24, 1731.
~ Themes ~
~ Themes ~
1.The Ambivalence of Mastery
2.The necessity of Repentance
3.The Importance of self Awareness
2.The necessity of Repentance
3.The Importance of self Awareness
~ Character in Robinson Crusoe ~
1. Robinson Crusoe
2. Friday
3. The Portuguese Captain
1. Robinson Crusoe
2. Friday
3. The Portuguese Captain
~ Plot over view ~
Robinson Crusoe is a youth of about 18 years old who lives in hull England. His father wants him to be a lawyer but he wants to be a sea voyager. He disregards he fact that his two older brother are gone because of their need for adventure. His father tells him to choose the safer way but he ignores. He ran away with a friend and secures free passage to London. He wants to become a trader .Crusoe through one of his comrade and tells the other one Xury that e may stay if he is faithful. They were rescued by Portuguese ship .The caption of the ship is kind who took him to Brazil.
Robinson goes to Brazil and leaves Xury with the Caption. The caption and a widow in England are Crusoe’s financial guardians. He does plantations and left for trade slaves. He reaches the shore safely. Robinson remains on the island for 27 years. He is able to take provisions from the ship. He builds a home, learns to cook, and raises goats and crops. He feels sad in the beginning. Then he turns to religion. He convinces himself that his life is better and less wicked. After fifteen years of his stay on the Island he finds footprints of savages. Robinson was afraid of the Cannibals but by using using guns he scares them. He rescues Friday a savage. Friday becomes his servant. They lived happily for a short period. They both saved Friday’s father and a Spaniard from Cannibals. Even though Crusoe has been away since 35 years, his plantations have done well. He gives money to Portuguese caption and the widow who were so kind to him. He becomes rich. He settles in the English countryside and marrying and having three children. He sets for the sea as his wife dies
Robinson goes to Brazil and leaves Xury with the Caption. The caption and a widow in England are Crusoe’s financial guardians. He does plantations and left for trade slaves. He reaches the shore safely. Robinson remains on the island for 27 years. He is able to take provisions from the ship. He builds a home, learns to cook, and raises goats and crops. He feels sad in the beginning. Then he turns to religion. He convinces himself that his life is better and less wicked. After fifteen years of his stay on the Island he finds footprints of savages. Robinson was afraid of the Cannibals but by using using guns he scares them. He rescues Friday a savage. Friday becomes his servant. They lived happily for a short period. They both saved Friday’s father and a Spaniard from Cannibals. Even though Crusoe has been away since 35 years, his plantations have done well. He gives money to Portuguese caption and the widow who were so kind to him. He becomes rich. He settles in the English countryside and marrying and having three children. He sets for the sea as his wife dies
~ Full title of the novel ~
Robinson Crusoe is a novel written by Daniel Defoe . this novel first published on 25 , April , 1719 . the first edition credited the work’s fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as it’s author and the many readers to believe . he was a real person and the book a travelogue of the true incidents the original title is;
Robinson Crusoe is a novel written by Daniel Defoe . this novel first published on 25 , April , 1719 . the first edition credited the work’s fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as it’s author and the many readers to believe . he was a real person and the book a travelogue of the true incidents the original title is;
“ The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe , of York , mariner : who liyed eight and twenty
Years all alone in an uninhabited island an the coast of
America , near the mouth of the great river of orooneque:
Having been cast on shore by shipwreck wherein all the
Men perished but himself with an account how he has at
Last as strangely delivered by pyrites…….”
Years all alone in an uninhabited island an the coast of
America , near the mouth of the great river of orooneque:
Having been cast on shore by shipwreck wherein all the
Men perished but himself with an account how he has at
Last as strangely delivered by pyrites…….”
The novel is it’s simple narrative style and then Robinson Crusoe was well known as the literary world and then credited as marking . the beginning of realistic way of fiction as a literary genre and before the end of novel 1719 the book had alredy ran through four edition .
~ Summery of Robinson Crusoe ~
$ - Part I: Before the Island
$ - Part I: Before the Island
Before landing on the island, Crusoe's father wants him to be a good, middle-class guy. Crusoe, who wants nothing more than to travel around in a ship, is definitely not into this idea. He struggles against the authority of both his father and God and decides to thumb his nose at both by going adventuring on the sea instead.
After sailing around for a while, he makes a bit of money in trade, but then is captured and made into a slave off the coast of Africa. Here he befriends a young man named Xury, with whom he escapes from captivity.
Picked up by a Portuguese sailing captain, Crusoe makes it to Brazil where he buys a sugar plantation. He does fairly well financially, but soon becomes involved in a venture to procure slaves from Africa. On the voyage there he gets shipwrecked and is left as the only survivor on a deserted island.
$- Part II: Life on the Island
This portion of the novel is dedicated to Crusoe's time alone on the island. He builds three main structures: his initial shelter, his country home on the opposite side of the island, and his guns and ammo fort in the woods. He spends his time planting corn, barley, and rice. He learns to make bread. He builds furniture, weaves baskets, and makes pots. Crusoe also raises goats and tends to his little animal family of cats, dogs, and a parrot. Most importantly, though, Crusoe becomes stronger in his religious faith, eventually submitting to the authority of God. He devotes himself to much religious reflection and prayer.
This portion of the novel is dedicated to Crusoe's time alone on the island. He builds three main structures: his initial shelter, his country home on the opposite side of the island, and his guns and ammo fort in the woods. He spends his time planting corn, barley, and rice. He learns to make bread. He builds furniture, weaves baskets, and makes pots. Crusoe also raises goats and tends to his little animal family of cats, dogs, and a parrot. Most importantly, though, Crusoe becomes stronger in his religious faith, eventually submitting to the authority of God. He devotes himself to much religious reflection and prayer.
$- Part III: Escape from the Island
In final section of the book, Crusoe sees a footprint on the shore one day and learns that he's actually not alone on the island. There are also (gasp!) cannibals. Crusoe struggles with the question of whether or not he should take revenge on them. Eventually, he meets with Friday, a native man whom he is able to rescue from the cannibals. Crusoe teaches Friday English and converts him to Christianity. The two become like father and son (more or less). Friday and Crusoe also rescue a Spaniard and Friday's father from a different group of cannibals.
Eventually, an English longboat full of sailors lands on the island. Crusoe learns that the men have mutinied against their captain. After Crusoe helps restore order to the ship, the men and captain pledge allegiance to Crusoe and agree to take him home. Crusoe then returns to Europe with Friday, where he comes into a great deal of money from his sugar plantations. Crusoe gets married and eventually revisits the island in his late years. The novel ends with promise of more adventures for him in the sequel.
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