Preface :

Daniel Defoe was a great traveler as

young man and went all over Europe.
He wrote many novels but still today
he is remembered for his great
imaginative adventure novel
Robinson Crusoes life on island.
Defoe got the raw material from
Alexander Selkirk who spends many
years on island alone. In the
novel, Robinson Crusoe we find the
character of Crusoe as an individual
and writer takes the medium of Sea to
describe the novel
asPicaresque andAdventure novel.
Character of Robinson Crusoe no
flashy hero or grand epic adventure.
Crusoe displays character traits that
have won him the approval of
generation of readers. Crusoes
business instincts are just as
considerable as his survival instants

and he manages twenty eight year

absence and even leaves his island
with the nice collection of gold.
Crusoe is never interested in
portraying himself as a hero in his
own narration. He does not boast of
his courage inquelling the mutiny and
he is always ready to
admitunheroic feelings of fear
or panic as when he saw footprint on
the beach.
Crusoe worries about the
religious consequences
ofdisobeying his father, but never
display any emotions about leaving.
As individual personality.
Crusoe is rather dull.
Finally, while not boasting of heroism,
Crusoe is nonetheless very interested
in possessions, power and prestige.
When Crusoe first calls himself
king of the island, it seems jocund but
when he treated Spaniard as his

subject we must take his royal

delusion seriously. Since it seems he
really does consider himself king.
Example :
Crusoe teaches Friday the word
[Master]even before teaching him
yes and No and indeed the he lets
him know that was to be [Crusoes ]
name.
Crusoes virtues tend to private; his
industry, resourcefulness and solitary
courage makes him individual. But his
vice are social, and his urge to
subjugate others is highly
objectionable. In bringing both side
together into success, failures and
contradictions of modern man.
So, as above over-viewing the
character of Crusoe, lets discuss him
as the source of the theme Capitalism
and Imperialism.

 Character analysis of Robinson

Crusoe with the source of the theme
Capitalism and Imperialism.
Robinson crusoe reveals to a
little more, not just about the
personality of Defoe , but about the
vaster problem of human loneliness
, which spreads like a stain as more
closer together.
Unfortunately, crusoe reaches
the unknown island where there is
no existence of other human being.
Being alone on island, he himself
start to do farming, merchant and
all works of day to day life.
Being a English man , he has a
pride of his nation and religion
Christianity also. He has a master
mind of
WHITE MANS BURDEN

Crusoe as an intellectual man

thought on island. Crusoe suffers
from identity crisis. Who am I?
Here, we find some
elements like:
1) Creation of sense of national
identity.
2) Colonial Imperialism.
3) The view of this nativeness ,
savage
Primitive and barbaric.
4) The use of national identity in
order to implement imperial policy,
for the development o f the native
creation through a sense of
responsibilities.
Gradually , Crusoe expands his
empires as English mentality.
Being English man in his mind
,there is a wish to be a master of

his kingdom which is created by

himself.
To live comfortably there , he trys
yo face all situations and become
Every Man like..
Economic man,
farmer
merchant, umbrella
maker, etc..
Generally Themes
are
The fundamental and the often
universal ideas explored in a
literally work.

Imperialism:
Having the desire the of
being master
Of Robinson Crusoe there is the
existence of the theme
Imperialism.

Imperialism is the
political,economic, military or
other domination of one country or
culture by another.
Dominated country to dominator.
The term is especially
applied to the European
domination of Africa following the
Berlin conference of 1885. White
mans Burden-is the most
important in Imperialism to behind
European global dominance.
Imperialism:
Power and duty is responsible for
burden.

Become master:
Crusoes success in mastery his
Situation overcoming his obstacles
and controlling his environment
shows the condition of mastery in
his beginning of the novel.

No doubt; Crusoe becomes

the master of Friday but Moreover,
Crusoes mastery over nature
makes him a master of his fate and
of himself.
The theme of mastery
becomes more complex and less
positive after Fridays arrival when
the idea of mastery comes to apply
more to mastery comes to apply
more to unfair relationship
between humans.
Friday learns English from Crusoe
who becomes his master.
Examples:
Crusoe teaches Friday the word
Master even before teaching him
yes and no and indeed the he lets
him Known that was to be
[Crusoes] name.

In chapter xxiii, we find above

examples which describes the
imperialism the most.
Crusoe never enjoy the idea
of considering Friday a friend or
equal for some reason. Superiority
comes instinctively to him. We have
question Crusoes right to be
called [M]aster when he later
refers to himself kingover the
natives and Europeans , who are
his subjects.
Master needs to Friday not
love and care, but wants to solve.
Every human being is suffering
from loneliness.,
Loneliness is punishment but
solitude is boon.
As economic man Crusoe
has been specifically identified with
Capitalism.

Where is society there

is rules!.
Being the king of the
kingdom , he has fear of losing his
slave Friday-there we find the
importance of his position because
without Friday how he describes
his position over the island.
How Crusoe rules over the
kingdom?
His solitary state on the
island, his limited relationship with
others,
including his own
family and the insignificance of sex
/woman reflect the nature of
capitalism.
Crusoe is mainly interested
in expanding his empire.

The novel becomes the narrative of

Master
He is fearing for loosing
Friday as slave but not as
companion is described not only
British mentality but reflects the
human nature who wants power
and position.
Robinson Crusoe as a work whose
protagonist is the founder of the
new world which he rules and
realisms for Christianity and
England.
-Edward

Capitalism:

Capitalism is a social
system based on the principal of
individual rights. Politically it is the
system of freedom.

Novel stars with trade

means Humans trade. The novel
has multi-culturalism and develops
with various multi themes.
On island being alone,
Crusoe treats himself as respected
and high position of the kingdom.
In order to keep expanding
capitalism, requires a cheap
sources of raw materials and
markets for finished products.
Colonials and markets for finished
products. Colonies serves both
functions for the mother country.
So, though capitalism and
colonialism are not identical,
they are closely associated. In the
18th century, Colonialism and
imperialism were generally
synonymous today terms are still

often interchanged though they are

not truly identical.
In colonialism, one has
controls the territory, the economy
and the political structure of
another country :in Imperialism
one nation extends its empire or its
domination of other lands.
Crusoe acts as a colonizer in
assum complete dominion over
the island and any people he
encounters. The land and all its
products belong to him. Several
times he notes the abundance of
trees suitable for making marts.
Crusoes actions as an individual
duplicate those of nations in
climbing land for colonies.
Many chapters we find this like
colonialism.

Examples:
The chapter which narrates his
return to the island is titled I revisit
my island. My colony on
island.
Crusoe sees himself as king
and others as his subjects including
his pets. He creates not a
democracy, not a republic , but a
kingdom there he imposes his will
on others, most obviously Friday
but also on the worst of the English
mutineers, whom he forces into
staying on the island.
The true symbol of British
conquest is Robinson crusoe. Who
cast away on a desert island, in his
pocket a knife and a pipe becomes
an architect, a carpenter, a knife
grinder ,an astronomer ,a baker , a
shipwright ,a potter , a saddler ,a

farmer ,a tailor ,an umbrella

makes and clergyman.
Crusoe is the true prototype
of the British colonist; as Friday is
the symbol of the subject races
.Crusoe as imperialist conqueror is
not a twentieth century invention
His sovereign rule is suggested by
the orb he holds and the object
submission of the native.
As above discussion we can say
that;
Colonialism helped capitalism to
become powerful.
Nature creates boundary
away from the society .Natural
things grow gradually not in
society but far away from the
society. Crusoe becomes king, the
lord , the master of the empire

though he breaks the culture of

Friday.
Having the power of
colonialism and Imperialism ,
Crusoe becomes cruel to Friday
because of Crusoes influences,
culture , too .means
Friday lost his original
identity.
Crusoe has great feeling
towards his island and he says
that
My island was now peopled,
and thought, myself very rich in
subjects; and it was a memory
reflections, which I frequently
made, how like a king I looked.
First of all , the whole country as
my own mere property, Basso that
I had an undoubted right of

dominion .I was absolute lord and

law right, they all owed their lives
to me , and there were ready to lay
down their lives .If there had been
occasion of it, for me.
Above sentences which is
spoken by Robinson Crusoe in the
novel- so all reader observes that
Daniel Dafoe describes and
develops him as the source of
central theme Capitalism and
Imperialism..
Conclusion :
Being alone on island,
Crusoe fulfills his wish to be the
king of island. He also behaves with
same attitude as Englishman. He
becomes the master of Friday as his
duty to make other people civilize
.Thus as above discussion, we may

conclude that Robinson Crusoe

becomes the source of the theme
Imperialism and Capitalism of the
novel Robinson Crusoe.