This document is a paper about the master-slave relationship between Robinson Crusoe and Friday in Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe. It provides background on the novel and characters, then analyzes how their relationship develops on the island with Crusoe taking a position of dominance as the master and Friday submitting to him as the servant or slave. While Crusoe sees himself as superior, the document also discusses how they eventually form a relationship of love and mutualism through working together and sharing the island.

1. Welcome
Name : Pina K. Gondaliya
Sem : 1
Roll no. : 25
Topic : Master Slave Relationship
Enrollment no : 2069108420200012
Email ID : pinagondaliya09@gmail.com
Paper no. : 2 Neo-classical
Submitted to : Department of English
MKB University

2. Robinson Crusoe
● Robinson Crusoe, in full The life and strange
surprising Adventurers of Robinson Crusoe.
● Defoe's first long work of fiction, It introduced
two of the most enduring characters in English
literature : Robinson Crusoe .
● The importance of this novel “Robinson Crusoe”
in English literature is that it is considered to be
one of the most important precursors of the
novel as a genre.

3. Meaning of Master Slave mentality
● A person who largely own by another and having
no freedom of action or right to property, A person
who is forced to work for another against his will
a, a person under the “Domination” of another
person or habit of influence.
● Once the Master /Slave relationship is established,
the direction of control is always from the master
to the slaves.

4. Two Main Character :
● Whole novel based
On two character.
● Robinson Crusoe,
Who is a protagonist
and narrator.
● Second is Friday
Who is servant
Of Crusoe.

5. Master Slave Relationship :
● Crusoe being the master of entire island ,nature
and animals, and than Crusoe was successful to
be a master over human being too .
● If even we have one big Island for two people
only, it is interesting to point out that the
relationship between the two belongs, from the
beginning, two the master and servant kind and,
mind.
● It is not only a master of gratitude as Robinson
had saved native's life, it is natural.

6. “At last he lays his head flat
Upon the ground, close to
my foot, and sets my other
Foot upon his head, as he
had done before; and after
this, made all the signs to
me of subjection, servitude
and submission imaginable,
to let me know how he would
Serve me as long as he lived”.

7. ● Robinson doesn't even need weapons to subjugate and
submit him, he finds himself with his foot on the
native’s foot on the native’s head as he instinctively
understands the white man’s superiority.
● The Native must have his own name, but Robinson
called him Friday, because that was the day he had
saved his life.
● Yet ,as soon as Friday can understand him, he teaches
him to call him “master “,rather than “Robinson “,just
to underline that they will never be equal on that island.
● Then why he doesn't see Friday as equal to him?
Reason is superiority complex that he greater than
Friday.

9. It is the relation of love and Mutualism as Friday
shared Crusoe in all the work and activities on the
island.
 Crusoe holds quite a lovely and nice opinion for Friday,
“For never man had a more faithful loving,
Sincere servant, than Friday was to me;
Without passions, sullenness or Designs,
Perfectly oblig’d and engag'd and engaged;
his very affections were ty’d to me, like those
of a child to a father “.

10. To sum up:
So, after reading this all the things we can say
that in this novel or throughout the journey of
Robinson Crusoe and Friday their relationship is
build very strong. In this novel Crusoe and Friday
building their relationship with each other.

11. ● Reference :
http://pritibagohil1416.blogspot.com/2
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robinson.html?m=1