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-> Main Character Robinson Crusoe
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#Achievement and Improvement
#The Ambivalence of Mastery
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2. Voyage to the
coast of Africa
-captured by Moorish pirates
-> slavery in Sallee
-Crusoe and Xury manage to escape after two years
-they sail down the African coast
Town of York, England, 1651
-Wish to go to sea instead of studying law
-struggles
-fear of embarrassment
1st September 1651:
1. Voyage to London
Travel to London
-> shipwreck but survival
->mixed thoughts
Brazil
-acquires a plantation and prospers
-buys himself a slave and a servant
-embarks on slave-gathering expedition to West Africa (1st September 1659)
30th September 1659:
Coast of Trinidad
19th December 1686:
Crusoe leaves the island
1674:
-a single man's footprint on the sand
1684:
-Crusoe rescues Friday
-they free Friday's father and a Spaniard
-shipwrecked off
-establishes a life consisting of spiritual reflection and practical measures to survive
->keeps a calendar and a journal
->reads the bible and prays regularly
->sows and cultivates barely and rice
->tames goats
11th June 1687:
Crusoe arrives in England
1688:
Crusoe arrives in Lisbon
Travel to England
->sells his estate in Brazil
->marries
->takes two nephews into care
1694:
embarks on voyage to the coast of Trinidad with one of his nephews
->young middle-class man
->headstrong, rebellious, disobedient
->adventurous - terrified
->decisive - fluctuating
->reflective mind
->afraid to embarrass himself
->willing to acquire knowledge
->ambitious for wealth
->self-reliant
-> reflective mind
->religious fears
->religious?
->modest
->hopes and doubts
->willing to acquire skills
->colonialist mindset
->courageous and attentive
->grateful
„I was now landed, and safe on shore, and began to look up and thank God that my life was saved in a case wherein there was some minutes before scarce any room to hope“
->still able to see the good in the bad
->attachment towards religion
->sensitive
->organized
->reflections and appreciation
->eager and ambitious
->power of endurance
->curious
->indifference to wife
->interest in possession and power
->fair treatment`?
->great high shapeless cap (goat's skin) with a flap
->short jacket of goat skin
->skirts coming down to the middle of thighs
->a pair of open-kneed breeches
->buskins
-> two belts of goat's skin
->two pouches under left arm
->a basket at his back
-over his head a goat-skin umbrella
The novel can be read as “[…] an exotic adventure story; a study of solitary consciousness; a parable of sin, atonement, and redemption; a myth of economic individualism; a displaced or encoded autobiography; an allegory of political defeat; a prophecy of imperial expansion – yet none of these explanations exhausts it.“ (p. vii)
-> a model of initiative and invention
-> a model of the industrious, applying, improving English man.
... always to be considered in the context of the time
-maritim and commercial empire vs. empire founded on territory expansion, economic exploitation, and racial subjection
-> postcolonial criticism
-> disobedience-punishment-repentance-deliverance
-> linked to Defoe’s own struggle
“My island was now peopled, and I thought myself very rich in subjects; and it was a merry reflection, which I frequently made, how like a king I looked. First of all, the whole country was my own mere property, so that I had an undoubted right of dominion. Secondly, my people were perfectly subjected: I was absolute lord and lawgiver, they all owed their lives to me, and were ready to lay down their lives, if there had been occasion of it, for me.“ (p.203)
“My island was now peopled, and I thought myself very rich in subjects; and it was a merry reflection, which I frequently made, how like a king I looked. First of all, the whole country was my own mere property, so that I had an undoubted right of dominion. Secondly, my people were perfectly subjected: I was absolute lord and lawgiver, they all owed their lives to me, and were ready to lay down their lives, if there had been occasion of it, for me.“ (p.203)
->colonialist, self-righteous, autocratical way of thinking.
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