Mostly regarded as an adventurous novel, Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, published in 1719, is the first novel in English Literature to some historians. The novel gives a complete summary of the Western World’s adventure of colonialism by hiding its face under the identity of an example of child novel. Robinson Crusoe, varying from slavery, domination to economy, has colonialist features. According to Collins Dictionary, colonialism means ‘’ the policy and practice of a power in extending control over weaker peoples or areas’’ Crusoe, after a ship accident which results in deaths of all crew except him, falls to an island where none lives in. he exerts his power over the island and people whom he encounters after so many years of being on
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Crusoe’s transform the island into colony for re-establishing the new England and his island became an image of Britain and the British Empire’’ (Phillips, 126) With this transformation of the island by him, Robinson Crusoe shows his colonialist European identity because he starts to think, in his subconscious, all the island belongs to him now. He does it through his European identity because Europeans are always educated and civilized. They know how to act and react to situations they face. Even if there is even a small possibility, this small possibility is enough for them. They can easily change it into their favours. And, when they make true the transformation, they bring their aims or ideas into the …show more content…
He is alone, not having any company or alliances. Yet, he knows he can topple them. Robinson Crusoe is also a novel about superiority of the West to the East or to other parts of the world. This superiority was the main idea of the theorist Edward Said’s work called as Orientalism. To him, Orientalism is that the West impose their ideas and cultures to the East to reshape it:
‘’Orientalism can be discussed and analysed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient -dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it: in short. Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.’’ (Said, 3)
The West tries to eradicate the Western ideology completely. Arif Bachtiar Cancerio says the West does it by ‘’giving a language, name and religion. It is the process that technically produced by the Western to impose their own language, religion, culture and identity upon the Eastern groups or nations.’’ (5). We see these in the novel with abundant examples. Moreover, Edward Said says Europeans creates stereotypes
Crusoe’s transform the island into colony for re-establishing the new England and his island became an image of Britain and the British Empire’’ (Phillips, 126) With this transformation of the island by him, Robinson Crusoe shows his colonialist European identity because he starts to think, in his subconscious, all the island belongs to him now. He does it through his European identity because Europeans are always educated and civilized. They know how to act and react to situations they face. Even if there is even a small possibility, this small possibility is enough for them. They can easily change it into their favours. And, when they make true the transformation, they bring their aims or ideas into the …show more content…
He is alone, not having any company or alliances. Yet, he knows he can topple them. Robinson Crusoe is also a novel about superiority of the West to the East or to other parts of the world. This superiority was the main idea of the theorist Edward Said’s work called as Orientalism. To him, Orientalism is that the West impose their ideas and cultures to the East to reshape it:
‘’Orientalism can be discussed and analysed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient -dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it: in short. Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.’’ (Said, 3)
The West tries to eradicate the Western ideology completely. Arif Bachtiar Cancerio says the West does it by ‘’giving a language, name and religion. It is the process that technically produced by the Western to impose their own language, religion, culture and identity upon the Eastern groups or nations.’’ (5). We see these in the novel with abundant examples. Moreover, Edward Said says Europeans creates stereotypes