Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Natália Hrnková Tímea Chamutiová

Daniel Defoe = Foe ( ) son of James and Mary Foe, a merchant family committed to Puritanism (Presbyterians) little is known about Daniel’s mother, Alice, died when Daniel was eight later changed his name Daniel Foe to Daniel Defoe, wanting to sound more gentlemanly in 1684 he married Mary Tuffley- they had seven children (2 sons, 5 daughters) Defoe is known to have used at least 198 pen names for example: Eye Witness, T. Taylor, and Andrew Morton, Merchant

His most unusual pen name was “Heliostrapolis“, secretary to the Emperor of the Moon,' used on his political satire The Consolidator Satire: satire: The True-Born Englishman

Robinson Crusoe (1719- first published)

It was published under the considerably longer original title: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates

Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Pacific island called "Más a Tierra" (in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island) Alexander SelkirkRobinson Crusoe Island Inspirated by...

Different editions: ´s , paperback 1994, paperback, 298 pages 2007,paperback, 321 pages 2012,paperback, 301 pages

Defoe took a new literary path around the age of 59, when he published Robinson Crusoe the literary genre known as the Robinsonade Defoe was one of the first to write stories about believable characters in realistic situations using simple prose wrote in the first person, his narrative voice is not overwhelmingly subjective there is no plot, only events are arranged Defoe himself was also traveler, whose voyages included visits to France, Spain, the Low Countries, Italy, and Germany

Is Robinson a hero/an anti-hero/ everyman? according to J.P. Hunter, Robinson is not a hero but a kind of everymaneverymanReligion many of the theological and moral points of view a leitmotif of the novel is the Christian notion of Providence Providence He reads the words of Psalm 50 where he reads, "Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.” He does not give up hope.

How is the setting depicted? “ I am cast upon a horrible, desolate island, void of all hope of recovery.“

EXTRACT 2: “I asked him if the people who die in his country went away anywhere? He said, “ Yes ; they all went to Benamuckee.“ Then I asked him whether those they eat up went thither too. He said, “Yes.“ From these things, I began to instruct him in knowledge of the true God;...“ MANIPULATION?

Is Robinson Crusoe a British colonist? Novelist James Joyce noted that the true symbol of the British Conquest is Robinson Crusoe: "He is the true prototype of the British colonist.James Joyce …The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.“

“If God much stronger, much might as the wicked devil, why God no kill the devil, so make him no more wicked? I was strangely suprised at this question; and,after all,though I was now an old man, yet I was but a young doctor, and ill qualified for a casuist or a solver of difficulties;.... So I pretended not to hear him,...“

Colonialism Crusoe refers to himself as the 'king' of the island the idealised master-servant relationship between Crusoe and Friday can also be seen in terms of cultural imperialismcultural imperialism Friday is the´savage´

Arguments for colonialism: Robinson didn´t learn Friday´s name (inhuman name) Robinson taught Friday his language, instead of respecting his “native“ language Robinson forced Friday to wear clothes and eat European food Robinson tried to persuade him for Anglican God Robinson didn´t accept Friday culture – he banned him cannibalism Robinson judged what is right and what is wrong

Slavery, cultural relativism, cannibals Robinson regards cannibalism as a 'national crime' and forbids Friday from practising it despite his disgust, he can´t change morals of the natives

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