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Setting

Point of View

The novel of Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe

  • In the middle of 17th century;
  • Transatlantic

(York, England; London; Sallee;

North Africa; Brazil; Trinidad;

Lisbon; Spain).

Historical Background

-The story of Robinson Crusoe is believed to be based on the real-life experience of a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk.

Swift uses the journal to make events more realistic.

In this diary,Robinson describes the adventures around the island. Keeping a journal keeps track of the days, but helps give him new direction as well.

The journal helps Crusoe focus on civilized behavior, which keeps him from going insane.

The Work/Sub-Genre Characteristics Presented:

THE PREFACE

IN GENERAL TERMS...

  • During the writing of the book, it is the author himself who completes the preface;
  • It gives a clearer situation of the narrative story.

Robinson's capability

The providence

The realism

The editor emphasizes Robinson's story as:

• An History of fact;

• The working of divine providence;

• An educational example offering moral improvement.

Plot

  • Realistic Fiction;
  • Historical Fiction;
  • Travel Fiction.

  • Initial Situation

Crusoe wants to see the world. His father forbids it.

  • Conflict

Crusoe leaves home and travels the world. Bad luck follows.

  • Complication

Crusoe is shipwrecked on a deserted island

  • Climax

Crusoe finds a footprint in the sand.

  • Suspense

Crusoe meets Friday.

  • Denouement

Crusoe helps overtake the mutineers.

  • Conclusion

Crusoe returns home.

Main characters

The Novel

  • Robinson Crusoe
  • Friday

Chapter I - Start in life

ROBINSON CRUSOE

I will call you Friday!

Specific references to reality

Why?

What else do you have to do,today?

First person narrative

Family setting

Individual setting

The relation between Friday and Robinson

Their relationship certainly seems to be ambiguous and open to interpretation.

  • Father and son
  • Master and servant

I was born in the year 1632,in the city of York,of a good family,though not of that country,my father being a foreigner of Bremen,who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise,and leaving off his trade lived afterward at York,from whence he had married my mother,whose relations were named Robinson,a good family in that country,and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznear ; but by usual corruption of words in England we are now called , nay , we call ourselves , and white our name,Crusoe , and so my companions always called me.

I had two elder brothers , one of witch was lieutenant-colonel to an English regiment of foot in Flanders,formerly commanded by the famous Colonel Lockhart , and was killed at the battle near Dunkirk against the Spaniards ; what became of my second brother I never knew,any more than my father and mother did know what was become of me.

"I[Crusoe] made him know his Name should be Friday … I likewise taught him to say Master, and then let him know, that was to be my Name"

This colonial master – servant aspect of the relationship is expressed repeatedly in the text

Crusoe never informs Friday of his real name, which displays a certain hierarchy system i.e. Crusoe is the master and he is 'higher' than Friday, who is merely the servant.

  • Homo economicus as a self-made man

As soon as Robinson Crusoe becomes aware of the situation he got himself into, he immediately starts to use any available resources that he could find in the hostile environment he is in.

  • The Prototype of English Colonizer

Robinson represents the discriminatory colonist, and Friday represents enslaved natives without identity.

  • Religious man

Robinson spokesman of Puritan ideology . Although Crusoe has an individual independence, he can not survive without the Providence.

Historical setting

  • Cultural innovation
  • Marks the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre;
  • Defoe's style of writing set a new standard for the English novel : simple, direct, fact-based style of the middle classes;
  • Narration in 1st person

Historical Context

  • Social

-Transition (a shift from an aristocratic order to a capitalist system)

  • Cultural

-The rise of printed culture

-The expansion of the reading public

-The spread of coffehouses

  • Economic

-Increased industrialization

CONTENTS

Some differences between Gulliver and Robinson

Robinson Crusoe

Gulliver's travel

1.Robinson is a traveller;

2.He exalts the use of reason;

3.Championed individualism;

4.Realistic novel;

5. Real places.

1.Gulliver is a traveller;

2.He satirises the use of reason;

3.Condemned individualism;

4.Imaginary voyager;

5.Fantastic places.

THE END

Giulia La Malfa

&

Mirko Montante

designed by Péter Puklus for Prezi

To: CLASS VB and Miss Di Maria

From: The island of Despair

  • The novel and the historical period;
  • Robinson Crusoe as a novel (point of view, setting, plot);
  • The preface;
  • Robinson Crusoe as the main character;
  • An extract from the novel;
  • Differences between Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver;

An Analysis on Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

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