NAMRATABA ZALASemester: 1Roll No.: 27

Enrollment No.: 2069108420170033Batch: 2016-2018

S. B. Gardi Department Of EnglishBhavnagar University

CHARACTERS IN ROBINSON CRUSOE

Robinson Crusoe- The narrator and protagonist of the story. He is a middle-class  man in Britain in search of a job. His Father recommends Law but Robinson rebels and becomes a merchant. Amid his many travels at sea a series of unfortunate events occur soon resulting in the ultimate catastrophic shipwreck that leaves him in solitude for twenty eight years.

ROBINSON CRUSOE

A character that comes into play in the second half of the book. Friday is  a twenty-six-year-old Caribbean native and cannibal. Friday becomes Crusoe’s servant after Crusoe saves his life when Friday is about to be eaten by other cannibals. Friday is in fact named for the day that he was saved.

FRIDAY

A minor character. He is a slave that Robinson escapes with after his imprisonment in Sal lee. HE comes to trust the boy. However when he is rescued by a Portuguese captain, Robinson is quick to sell Xury to him.

XURY

He is never named however he plays an important role in the story. He rescues Robinson and brings him to Brazil where he helps set Robinson up as a plantation owner. During Robinson's 28 year absence,  the captain maintained his plantation so that when he returned he had made a small fortune in Brazil.

PORTUGESE CAPTAIN

THE SPANIARD One of the men from the

Spanish ship that is wrecked off Crusoe’s island, and whose crew is rescued by the cannibals and taken to a neighboring island. The Spaniard is doomed to be eaten as a ritual victim of the cannibals when Crusoe saves him. In exchange, he becomes a new “subject” in Crusoe’s “kingdom,” at least according to Crusoe. The Spaniard is never fleshed out much as a character in Crusoe’s narrative, an example of the odd impersonal attitude often notable in Crusoe.

THE WIDOWAppearing briefly, but on two

separate occasions in the novel, the widow keeps Crusoe’s 200 pounds safe in England throughout all his thirty-five years of journeying. She returns it loyally to Crusoe upon his return to England and, like the Portuguese captain and Friday, reminds us of the goodwill and trustworthiness of which humans can be capable, whether European or not.

Robinson crusoe's relation with Friday

THAT IS IT