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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

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Robinson Crusoe

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Impact

Published in 1719 it was an instant, popular and financial success

Since then it has made a profound impression on readers as well as on whole cultures

It 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

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Robinson's Appeal

He provides any reader the thrill of adventure

For English readers he is the typical Englishman: manly, self-reliant, courageous, heroic, and resourceful

He 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

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Many books in one

Adventure story Moral tale and/or Puritan fable (spiritual

autobiography) Fictional autobiography

llustration for Robinson CrusoeHoward Davie

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Robinson Crusoe: Life on the real islandBy Gideon Long BBC News, Santiago

Daniel Defoe's famous novel was inspired by the true story of an 18th Century castaway, but the real Robinson Crusoe island bears little resemblance to its fictional counterpart.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19562787

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Robinson Crusoe on the Screen

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Expedition Robinson

Is a Swedish reality television program in which contestants are put into survival situations, and a voting process eliminates one person each episode until a winner is determined. The format was developed in 1994 by Charlie Parsons for a United Kingdom TV production company called Planet 24, but the Swedish debut in 1997 was the first production to actually make it to television.An American version called Survivor, started in 2000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_Robinson

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Robinson the worker

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Spiritual autobiography

The writer emphasizes the character's former sinfulness as a way of glorifying God; the deeper his sinfulness, the greater God's grace and mercy in saving him

The character reviews his life from his new perspective and writes of the present and the future with a deep sense of God's presence in his life and in the world

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Puritanism

Puritanism started in 16th century as a movement to reform the Church of England

It accepted the interpretations of John Calvin on

the nature of man free will predestination other basic concepts

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Puritanism

After the restoration of Charles II as king in 1660 it split into three major denominations

Presbyterian Congregational Baptist

The Puritans saw God as the awesome divinity of Old Testament His maintaining and directing everything in the universe was God's Providence

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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 fall

Only God can determine who should be saved in their fallen state.

Individuals must use their talents, which come from God

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Robinson the repentant

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Original sin

Crusoe receives warnings against going to sea from his father and the captain of the first ship he sails 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 references

He converts Friday to Christianity

He looks at his past through the eyes of the convert who constantly sees the working of Providence

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Robinson king of his island

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Robinson the colonizer

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Colonial vision

Capitalism and colonialism are closely related

To keep expanding, capitalism requires a cheap source of raw materials and markets for finished products, thus colonies

So colonialism is one form of imperialism

Robinson acts as a colonizer when he takes complete dominion over the island and the people. The land and all its products belong to him.

His actions duplicate those of nations

As an imperialist he sees himself as king and others as his subjects: he creates a kingdom

He imposes his will on others: Friday (and the English mutineer)

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Robinson the imperialist