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: bhatt.urvi22@gmail.com 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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