Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Natlia Hrnkov Tmea Chamutiov

Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Natália Hrnková Tímea Chamutiová

Daniel Defoe = Foe (1660 -1731) � son of James and Mary Foe, a merchant family committed to Puritanism (Presbyterians) � little is known about Daniel’s mother, Alice, died when Daniel was eight � later changed his name Daniel Foe to Daniel Defoe, Defoe is known to have used wanting to sound more at least 198 pen names gentlemanly for example: Eye Witness, � in 1684 he married Mary T. Taylor, and Andrew Tuffley- they had seven Morton, Merchant children (2 sons, 5 daughters)

His most unusual pen name was “Heliostrapolis“, secretary to the Emperor of the Moon, ' used on his political satire The Consolidator Satire: satire: The True-Born Englishman

Robinson Crusoe (1719 - first published)

It was published under the considerably longer original title: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates

Inspirated by. . . � Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Pacific island called "Más a Tierra" (in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island)

Different editions: 1860´s 1882 1895 1719 1946 1961, paperback 1994, paperback, 298 pages 2007, paperback, 321 pages 2012, paperback, 301 pages

Defoe took a new literary path around the age of 59, when he published Robinson Crusoe �the literary genre �Defoe was one of known as the Robinsonade the first to write stories about believable characters in realistic situations using simple prose �wrote in the first person, his narrative voice is not overwhelmingly subjective �there is no plot, only events are arranged � Defoe himself was also traveler, whose voyages included visits to France, Spain, the Low Countries, Italy, and Germany

Is Robinson a hero/an anti-hero/ everyman? �according to J. P. Hunter, Robinson is not a hero but a kind of everyman Religion � many of theological and moral points of view � a leitmotif of the novel is the Christian notion of Providence � He reads the words of Psalm 50 where he reads, "Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me. ” He does not give up hope.

How is the setting depicted? “ I am cast upon a horrible, desolate island, void of all hope of recovery. “

EXTRACT 2: “I asked him if the people who die in his country went away anywhere? He said, “ Yes ; they all went to Benamuckee. “ Then I asked him whether those they eat up went thither too. He said, “Yes. “ From these things, I began to instruct him in knowledge of the true God; . . . “ MANIPULATION?

Is Robinson Crusoe a British colonist? Novelist James Joyce noted that the true symbol of the British Conquest is Robinson Crusoe: "He is the true prototype of the British colonist. …The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity. “

“If God much stronger, much might as the wicked devil, why God no kill the devil, so make him no more wicked? I was strangely suprised at this question; and, after all, though I was now an old man, yet I was but a young doctor, and ill qualified for a casuist or a solver of difficulties; . . So I pretended not to hear him, . . . “

Colonialism �Crusoe refers to himself as the 'king' of the island �the idealised master-servant relationship between Crusoe and Friday can also be seen in terms of cultural imperialism �Friday is the´savage´

Arguments for colonialism: �Robinson didn´t learn Friday´s name (inhuman name) �Robinson taught Friday his language, instead of respecting his “native“ language �Robinson forced Friday to wear clothes and eat European food �Robinson tried to persuade him for Anglican God �Robinson didn´t accept Friday culture – he banned him cannibalism �Robinson judged what is right and what is wrong

Slavery, cultural relativism, cannibals �Robinson regards cannibalism as a 'national crime' and forbids Friday from practising it �despite his disgust, he can´t change morals of the natives

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