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To Crusoe’s World
Paper: 2 ( The Neo-Classical Literature ) Name: Bhatt Urvi P. Roll no. 36 Class: sem-1 P.G.Enrollment No. : PG13101004 Seat No. : 1130036 Email id: [email protected] Submitted to: Smt S.B.Gardy
Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
Bhavnagar (Gujarat-India)
Topic: Robinson Crusoe as a moral tale
Robinson Crusoe
By
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe Trailer 1997.mp4
First and third person narrative,
Written by Defoe in 1719 in England.
The novel is adventure story
isolation
Introduction:
Defoe creates a moral tale of rewards and punishments.
Punishment for his ‘original sin’- disobeying his father.
The Bible
Shipwreck
As a moral tale:
‘’ had that providence, which so happily had seated me at the Brasils, as a planter, blessed me with confined desired… I could have been… one of the most, considerable planters in the Brasils.’’
Crusoe says:
Rogers has pointed out, the act of disobedience
The ‘original sin’ is actually a condition of capitalist expansion where the individual businessman/ entrepreneur takes
Himself calls enterprising spirit of the colonist, which he thinks, is punished by providence.
June 1660 Falls ill Hallucinates Drinking tobacco-steeped rum,
Experiences religious illusion. Realizes that God has delivered
him from his earlier sins.
Swept away by a powerful current
Reaching shore.
Thanks to God
On the beach
Assumes the footprints
He surveys
Find a ship wreaked on his coast
Empty when he arrives
Hears gunshots
To investigate
Saves Friday
Teach him some elementary Christian concepts.
Being isolated thus Crusoe is reminded of providence now and then. He repents for his disobedience and thus provides morality to the readers…
Conclusion:
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