Robinson crusoe as a 'Myth Maker'

Name: Gohil Devikaba JRoll no.: 06 Topic’s Name: Robinson Crusoe as a “Myth Maker”Batch: 2014-16Paper name: The Neo-classical LiteratureContact Me: [email protected]

SMT. S. B. GARDI DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

M. K. BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY

About Daniel Defoe

• He was born in 1659-60 (probably)

• He was died in 1731• By occupation he was a

Writer, journalist, and merchant

• He not only write novels but also write poems like ‘The True-born Englishman (1701)’

• His Novels:Robinson Crusoe (1719)The Farther Adventures of Robinson

Crusoe (1719)Serious reflections during the life

and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: with his Vision of the angelick world (1720)

Memoirs of a Cavalier (1720)Captain Singleton (1720)A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)Colonel Jack (1722)Moll Flanders (1722)Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress

(1724)

Robinson Crusoe (1719)

‘Robinson Crusoe’ is one of the famous novel of Daniel Defoe.

Many people think that this was his real life incidence.

Crusoe’s ship face a thunder and crash down.

Luckily he succeed in saving his life. With him also a dog and a cat comes on the Island.

He think that he is all alone on that island.

Then he star thinking that he the king, God of this island.

• If we want to

create myth then we need some one who can carry our myth in future.

• Here Crusoe find Friday who’s life he saved and forces him to obey Crusoe with the fear of weapons.

• Here we can see Robinson powerful than Friday.

He taught him English language, the rules of Christian religion, so called mannerism.

Because he was all alone on that island he tried that everything should controlled by him.

Here we can also see that he want to be like God, something against nature like ‘Dr. Faustus’ by Christopher Marlowe.

We can see from this picture that he established a cross on that island.

This a symbol to tell that Crusoe is the king of this island.

Thank you