Name
: mori utsavi bharatbhai
Roll
No. : 44
Enrollment
No. : 2069108420180037
M.A.Sem-1
Year
: 1017-2019
Email
id : utsavibarajput18@gmail.com
Paper
No.: 2. The neo- classical literatuur
Submitted
to : department of English bhavnagar
Topic
: critically analyze the character of
course.
·
Introduction :~
Daniel Defoe wrote
Robinson Crusoe at the age of fifty-nine and it was an immediate success. The
story of Robinson Crusoe that has delighted the young, and the old for that
matter, for over two-hundred years was actually based on an experience in the
life of a seaman, Alexander Selkirk, who spent four years on the deserted
island of Juan Fernandez.But Selkirk's four years become thirty in Defoe's
hands and the story itself is turned into a microcosm of the eighteenth
But Selkirk's four years become thirty in Defoe's
hands and the story itself is turned into a microcosm of the eighteenth
century's triumph over nature. During the thirty years of his stay on the
island, Crusoe establishes himself very comfortably, converts his native
servant Friday to Christianity, overcomes the savages and is hailed as their
master. By the happy device of allowing Crusoe to rescue ammunition and
material from his wrecked ship before the storm finally destroys it, Defoe is
able to invest every moment of the life on the island with interest. Any
withholding of belief was impossible when the reader was confronted with the
thousand details of Crusoe's everyday activities-making a sieve, milking goats,
preparing his food, and fortifying his home. Nothing was omitted that might
delight the new reading public, eager for facts, enchanted by documentary
records and demanding the illusion of truth.
The book is a kind of epic of human endeavour
ceaselessly striving after some fresh comfort or betterment. Opinions differ as
to the sincerity of the religious psychology; there can be no doubt as to the
truth of the touches which indicate the desire for companionship. In the
hierarchy of Crusoe's retainers, the parrot ranks first, because it can speak
words. For sheer power of conveying a set of sensations, all writers agree that
nothing can exceed the lonely man's sudden discovery of a footprint on the
sand: yet the description of his landing through the surf, his flight before
wave after wave, is hardly inferior. And for perfection and beauty of
invention, one may cite the incident of corn blades springing up, as it first
seemed, by unaccountable providence beside his cave. But like everything else
that is recorded as happening to him, this seems so picturesque and yet so
credible that we hardly consider the art of the narrator. If verisimilitude in
fiction were the highest achievement of an artist, few could rank beside Defoe.
· analyze
the character of course. :~
Character List
Robinson Crusoe -
The novel’s protagonist and narrator. Crusoe begins the novel as a young
middle-class man in York in search of a career. He father recommends the law,
but Crusoe yearns for a life at sea, and his subsequent rebellion and decision
to become a merchant is the starting point for the whole adventure that
follows. His vague but recurring feelings of guilt over his disobedience color
the first part of the first half of the story and show us how deep Crusoe’s
religious fear is. Crusoe is steady and plodding in everything he does, and his
perseverance ensures his survival through storms, enslavement, and a
twenty-eight-year isolation on a desert island.
Read an in-depth analysis of Robinson Crusoe.
The success of this voyage encouraged him to go again.
Although his friend the captain died soon after they returned, Crusoe decided
to go to Guinea again by the same ship. He left two hundred of his three
hundred pounds, profit in the safe hands of the captain’s widow he took with
him on the voyage nearly one hundred pounds ‘worth of goods to exchange for
gold. he hoped this time to make an even bigger profit.It turned out to be the
un-happiest voyage that I ever made. When Crusoe and his friend were going
towards the Canary Island a Turkish pirate ship chased them. They sailed as
quickly as they could, but pirate ship was much faster and caught them within a
few hours. The pirates killed three of our men and wounded another eight. They
were all taken as prisoners. The captain of the pirate ship made him slave. At
the end of the voyage he took Crusoe to his home, and Crusoe hoped that when he
went to sea again he would take me with him. I thought that sooner or later he
would be taken a prisoner himself by some Spanish man of war. Then I would be
free. But when he went to sea the captain left Crusoe to look after his garden
and do the work in the house. When he came home again Crusoe was sent to live
on board the ship to guard it. Here Crusoe bean to think of ways of escaping,
but had no opportunity at all until two years had passed. His captain often
would take one of the smaller boats belonging to his ship. Crusoe would go with
him to row the boat with the help of one of his servants. Sometimes one of his
relations, a Moor, would come instead of the captain. It is so happened that one day the
pirate captain had some very important guests coming. Captain wanted to
entertain them on board his ship, and so he sent to the ship a very much larger
quantity of food than usual. Crusoe said that he got everything ready and
waited the next morning for the captain and his guests to arrive. But when he
came on board the captain was alone. He told Crusoe that his guest was not
coming after all. He ordered to Crusoe to go out as usual with the Moor and
catch some fish. Crusoe resolved that this was the time to escape and so he
began to prepare the boat, not for a fishing trip but for a voyage. Crusoe
asked the Moor to get something for them to eat. Crusoe said that it was not
good that we should eat the food which our master had sent for his guests. The
Moor said that this was true and went to fetch some biscuits and fresh water
.While he was away Crusoe hid in the fishing boat a large quantity of the
Captain’s food. He also hid a gun an axe a saw and hammer. With the food that
the Moor would be bringing, the fishing boat now had plenty of food on board
for quite a long voyage.
When
all was ready Crusoe set out on his fishing trip with the Moor and one servant.
We passed the entrance to the harbor and continued until we were about a mile
from the shore. We fished for a time, but caught nothing. Then Crusoe said to
the Moor that we will never catch anything here. We must go further out to sea.
He agreed and Crusoe stepped forwards in the boat to where the Moor was
sitting. Thus some for a few times Crusoe cheat Moor and then he pointed gun to
Moor and tells him to swim and if you will do it I will not harm you but if you
come any nearer to the boat I will shoot you. For some time he stared at Crusoe
but at last he turned out and began to swim towards sea. Then Crusoe turned to
the servant who was called Xury.he was very faithful to Crusoe and he promised
him that he will make him great and also added if you not swear to be true to
me I will throw you into the sea.
And they rich at the mouth of
river and they waiting for night and they had to go ashore so here as we had no
more fresh water then Xury.he go and return as he do. In this book here many
chapters which mentioned Robinson Crusoe’s’ MASTERNESS’. In Chapter number 4
when Robin son's ship was broken but he
was good swimmer but he was power less in rough sea. it was very big wave which
carried Crusoe forward and left on the
shore half dead with amount of water He
had swallowed, he had just enough breath left to get up and stagger towards the land before another wave overtook
him. He soon found that it was impossible to avoided being overtaken by the
sea. He saw another wave as high as a hill coming towards me. He wanted to try
to swim with it even further up the beach. When it reached him he was buried to
a depth of twenty feet. He held his breath and was carried forward at high
speed. This happened several times until at last he reached the foot of a
cliff. He managed to climb to the top and there he sat, free from danger. Here
no any one who gave him company? There was a no trace of them to be seen
anywhere and he concluded that they must have been drowned .Now the story is in
Crusoe’s word by which we can say that
he is a narrative of’ MASTER.’.
· Conclusion :~
The young Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and
castaway on a remote tropical island for 28 years. The story may be based on
the true-life events of Alexander Selkirk , a Scottish castaway who survived
four years on a Pacific island. This classic tale of adveRobinson Crusoe and
Friday finally have a ship and a way off the island. Crusoe relates his journey
home and how he resolves the outstanding issues he left behind in his life. He
meets with one final harrowing adventure on his journey home and uses it to
lead into the final thoughts of his great tale. So ends one of the greatest
adventures ever written and so began the great art of the English novel. Daniel
Defoe created a character that has influenced every writer and every reader's
imagination since he wrote this incredible book.
It has
been an uncommon pleasure to read this difficult book and to make my way
through the unusual language of Mr. Defoe. Perhaps by reading him, one can
learn to think a bit like him. With great language comes great subtlety of
thought.
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