For Education purpose

1. Comparison of
'Gulliver's Travels'
and ‘Robinson
crusoe’

2. Prepared by Gayatri Nimavat
Roll no. : 9
M.A semester 1. Batch : 2022-24
Paper 105 History of English literature-from
. 1350 to 1900
Email id: gayatrinimavat128@gmail.com
Enrollment no. : 4069206420220019
Submitted to Department of English, MKBU
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3. Points to ponder
✣ Introduction
✣ About Authors
✣ Comparison
✣ Colonialism and Imperialism
✣ Study of Articles
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4. Jonathan Swift
✣ Born on November 30, 1667, Dublin
✣ Died on October 19, 1745, Dublin
✣ Anglo-Irish author, who was the
foremost prose satirist in the
English language.
✣ Besides the celebrated novel
Gulliver’s Travels (1726), he wrote
such shorter works as A Tale of a
Tub (1704) and “A Modest Proposal”
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5. Daniel Defoe
✣ Born in 1660, London, England.
✣ Died in 1731, London.
✣ English novelist, pamphleteer,
and journalist.
✣ Author of ‘Robinson Crusoe’
(1719–22) and ‘Moll Flanders’
(1722).’A Journal of the Plague
Year’ ‘Colonel Jack’ ‘Hymn To
The Pillory’
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6. Introduction
✣ In both Daniel Defoe’s ‘Robinson
Crusoe’ and Jonathan Swift’s
‘Gulliver’s Travels’, the main
characters suddenly find themselves
in radically different environments
than what they are used to.
✣ Robinson Crusoe finds himself
shipwrecked on an uninhabited island,
and Gulliver is forced onto a strange
island by his wayward crew.
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7. Comparison
✣ ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ (1726) by Jonathan Swift and ‘Robinson
Crusoe’ (1719) by Daniel Defoe are both contemporary novel
written on Travel persona. The protagonists of both novels
have much similarity.
✣ Like Robinson, Gulliver wanted to change the wheel of luck
through Trade and commerce especially overseas trade and
commerce.
✣ Both Gulliver and Robinson like adventurer’s life. Adventure
gets the most priority to both of them.
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● Beyond their family bondage, they both go
to sea. Though several times they were the
victim of fate in the sea, there were full of
disasters in the sea, they never stopped.
The mysterious attractions of sea behold
them.
● Robinson has neglected his family. To him
his business is more important than his
family. In the same way Gulliver also
neglected his family giving priority to his
personal choice.He left home several time
ignoring his responsibility towards his
family.

9. ✣ In ‘Robinson Crusoe' when
Robinson found himself in an
unknown island he adapted himself
with the situation rather being
frustrated. He himself made all
necessary things he needed.
✣ In ‘Gulliver’s Travel’ Gulliver also
adapted himself with upcoming
problem. He himself overcomes all
his problems. Both of them
eventually return England via their
own attempts. 9

10. Colonialism and Imperialism
✣ The two novels Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's
Travels reflect opposing views on eighteenth
century colonialism and imperialism.
✣ Crusoe typifies the spirit of British colonialist who
supports the idea of European superiority and
subjugation
✣ Gulliver on the other hand, opposes colonialism on
the basis that not all colonized people are actually
savages but that they have their own unique
culture and sometimes ordered simple societies
while the main motives of colonialism is actually
selfish ambition carried out through human
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EXPANDING EMPIRES, EXPANDING SELVES:
COLONIALISM, THE NOVEL, AND ‘ROBINSON
CRUSOE’
● Robinson Crusoe cries out for study in its colonial
contexts.Indeed, British colonialism informs nearly every
feature of Daniel Defoe's first novel.
● Contemporary readers commonly regard Defoe's novel as ‘the
prototypical colonial novel' of the eighteenth century.
● some of the more provocative postcolonial analyses of
Defoe's novel appear not in criticism but in postcolonial
literature such as Derek Wolcott's Pantomime and J. M.
Coetzee's Foe, works that "write back" to Defoe's "master"
narrative of empire.

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✣ More numerous are the frequent allusions to
Robinson Crusoe, particularly the Crusoe-Friday
relationship, in postcolonial theoretical discourse.
The mere mention of Defoe's novel, or his
protagonist's relationship to Friday, seems to
encapsulate the colonial myth and the dynamics of
colonial relationships in general.
✣ The influence of colonialism on Crusoe's
individualism, we should acknowledge that we are
dealing with an imagined colonialism
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13. Satiric Structure and Tone in the Conclusion of
‘Gulliver's Travels’
RAYMOND BENTMAN
The forth book of ‘Gulliver's Travels’ has, to be sure,
been the object of much discussion. At times, in these
last two chapters, Swift endows Gulliver with images
that imply madness by almost any standard. "Mr.
Herman Moll... hath rather chosen to follow other
Authors" in his maps, his horror at wearing Don
Pedro's shirts, his preference for the smell of the
stable and the stable boy, his treatment of various
humans. And at still other times he is the satiric
spokesman for Swift. He is a Juvenalian satirist when
he describes contemporary colonizing.
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14. Conclusion
This two novel are similar as adventurous story but these
two authors show different points of view. Robinson
Crusoe” the relationship between a “civilized” man,
Robinson, and a savage, Friday, is still a master-slave
relationship: Friday is a "good savage", but remains wild
and linked to the tolerance of his master, that represent a
colonizer of that time.Gulliver is instead interested in the
variety of worlds and cultures with which he comes into
contact; he is not a proud colonizer, he observes, respects
and adapts himself to the habits and customs of the
peoples visited. 14

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