Name: solanki jayshree

Class:m.a

Sem:1 enrollment no:pg14101028 Paper No:2

Paper Name: The Neo- classical literature

Topic : self discovery robinson crusoe Submitted to: smt s.b.gardi m.k.bhavnagar university

Self discovery Robinson crusoe

Daniel defoe deals with the growth and development of individual in solitude.

When the novel begins the narrator deals with family.Family is symbolic of society.

Crusoe’s struggle in ocean and being cast on to land start of new life.

Crusoe alone on island –man alone in relationship with GOD.

His solitary state on the island , his limited relationship with others.

Edward said:- Crusoe “ As a work whose protagonist is the founder of the new world, which he rules and reclaims for Christianity and England”.

Crusoe becomes ‘ Everyman’and readers see the solitudeof a human soul.

Crusoe living on the island he stops wandering.

He cuts down trees and builds a house .

Crusoe faces fear and reality.

Crusoe soon learns for their shelter and food for himself.

On shore, he finds goats, he can graze for meet .

Crusoe feel more optimistic about being on the island, describing himself as its ‘king’.

Crusoe becomes the creater of world, his own world.

Thank you….