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Homework assignment.
the ship and had himself put ashore in 1704 on the uninhabited island
1709 but he was discovered quite satisfied with his island life.
Thus, Robinson Crusoe has a firm basis in actuality. His fiction often
starts from and very often stays very close to a fact or even a
series of facts.
been defined yet, even the term the novel did not exist ).
Crusoe was born in the year 1632, in the city of York. He got
the island on the 19th December 1686, after a stay of 28 years, two
In Robison Crusoe , Defoe gave his readers all kinds of minute details
about everyday life. Such details can be seen in Crusoe’s digging the
cave, building the fence, collecting his crops of barley and wheat,
hunting the animals , fighting the cannibals. The reader learns that
the wrecked ship near the sea shore which enabled Crusoe to bring
actuality.
the classical focus on the ideal, the universal and the corporate
feeling that he was dealing with a subject that had not been properly
Family or King. That these thinkers should have been the political
the one hand to the realist epistemology of the modern period, and
on the other to the individualism of its social structure. In the
literary, the philosophical and the social spheres alike the classical
focus on the ideal, the universal and the corporate has shifted
that are essentially different from the tales of travel and roguery
were laid in the period after 1688. The commercial and industrial
classes, who were the prime agents in bringing about the individualist
based was on longer the family, nor the church, nor the guild,
nor the township, nor any other collective unit, but the
out how all the characters of Defoe pursue money, according to the
Crusoe lives with his parents but decides to leave them for the
parents and himself at the beginning is a debate not about filial duty,
that prevents Crusoe from paying much heed to the ties of family ,
value. The clearest case is that of Xury , the Moorish boy, who
helped him to escape from slavery band who had even offered to
sacrifice his life for Crusoe’s sake. He resolves to love Xury always
and to make a great man of him . But eventually he sells the boy to
Crusoe’s relations with Man Friday are egocentric. He does not ask
labour in The Wealth of Nations, the man who performs one of the
many separate operations in the manufacture of a pin is unlikely to
sets back the economic clock, and takes his hero to a primitive
and where it has the further significant difference from the pin-
individual effort and individual reward. This was the final change
person’s daily activities and daily life, individual effort and individual
award in this world, here and now are of sufficient importance and
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Homework assignment.
Write a short essay entitled: Economic Individualism in Robinson