Main Themes In Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

My diploma thesis is about the Main Themes in Daniel Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe” novel. This novel is an autobiographical narrative novel which the author names “ Robinson Crusoe”.Novel firstly was named “ The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, but then was changed into “Robinson Crusoe”.It was published with this title with the intention to look more like the life of a sailor, not of the author itself.

The novel represents the amalgamation of middle-class and aristocratic society.It represents the spiritual progress which is revealed during the activities that he has on the island. The experiences that he has made him realize the connection between him and the divine belief.

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Daniel Defoe writes in the preface that, “this story is told with modesty, with seriousness, and with a religious application of events…” (Defoe 3). Martin Grief argues that “the work was nevertheless composed with a moral Christian intent” (Grief 1). Although critics of Robinson Crusoe have recognized the vast diverse groups of characters presented in this novel, they have been slow to look at important motivation factors that would influence Crusoe’s actions. Bhabha claims, “The borderline work of culture demands an encounter with “newness” that is not part of the continuum of past and present. It creates a sense of the new as an insurgent act of cultural translation” (Bhabha 938). In other words, the culture must locate differences between their beliefs and customs from those of foreign cultures. In doing so this “newness” creates a sense of insurgent acts (Bhabha). These other cultures are different, and that because these cultures are different they are automatically perceived as a hostel, and ready to stand their ground. According to Roxanna Wheeler, “The savage and the Christian are the most important racialized categories between Europeans and others that help produce and maintain a sense of European superiority in North and West Africa, South America, and in the Caribbean.” (Wheeler