M.K.BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITYDEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Name : Maru Janak JRoll no : 26Enrollment no : PG 15101026Paper no : 2 ( The Neo-Classical Literature)Topic : Robinson Crusoe ’Original Sin’Submitted To :M.K Bhavnagar University Deprtment of English

INTRODUCTION

Impact : Published in 1719 it was an instant, popular and financial successSince than it has made a Profound Impression on readers as on whole culturesIt created not only a new Literary form, the Novel, but also a new reading public It has always had an almost universal appeal thanks to many factors

ROBINSON’S APPEAL :He provides any reader the thrill of adventureFor English Readers he is the typical Englishman: many, self-reliant, courageous, Heroic, and resourcefulHe is a mythic or an Archetypal figure, that is a character who speaks to something deep in the human psyche and essential to the human condition.

MANY BOOKS IN ONE :

Adventure storymoral tale and puritan fable (spiritual autobiography)Fiction autobiography

Robinson Crusoe On The Screen

Robinson The Worker

A Few Puritan Concepts :

God is actively and directly involved in the affairs of nations and individuals.The puritans saw grace as a gift from a god; human beings were unworthy to receive salvation because of their Depraved natures.Every human being is by nature corrupt and perverted as a result of Adam and Eve’s fallOnly God can determine who should be saved in their fallen state.Individuals must use their talents, which come from god.

Original Sin : Crusoe receives warming against going to sea from his father and the captain of the first ship he sail on. In ignoring their warnings, he denies god’s social order in the world.providence (divine care) might send him punishments to awaken a sense of his sinfulness and to turn him to god.Robinson uses religious language, Imagery, and Biblical referencesHe converts Friday to ChristianityHe looks at his past through the eyes of the convert who constantly sees the working of providence.

Robinson King of This Island

Robinson The Colonizer

Colonial vision:Capitalism and Colonialism are closely RelatedTo keep expanding, capitalism requires a cheap source of raw and markets for finished products, thus coloniesSo colonialism is one from of imperialism Robinson acts as a colonizer when he takes complete dominion island and the people. the land and all its products belong to him.his action duplicate those of nation.As an imperialist he sees himself as king and others as his subject creates a kingdomHe imposes his will on others: Friday (and the English mutineer)

Robinson The Imperialist :

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