The document provides an overview of key characters from the novel 'Robinson Crusoe', including the protagonist, Robinson, who becomes a merchant against his father's wishes and survives a shipwreck, leading to 28 years of solitude. The secondary characters include Friday, a Caribbean cannibal who becomes Robinson's servant, and a Portuguese captain who helps Robinson establish a plantation in Brazil. The document also mentions minor characters like a slave named Xury and the spaniard who is saved by Crusoe, highlighting themes of trust and human goodwill.

1. NAMRATABA ZALA
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S. B. Gardi Department Of English
Bhavnagar University

2.  Robinson Crusoe- The
narrator and protagonist of the
story. He is a middle-class man
in Britain in search of a job. His
Father recommends Law but
Robinson rebels and becomes a
merchant. Amid his many
travels at sea a series of
unfortunate events occur soon
resulting in the ultimate
catastrophic shipwreck that
leaves him in solitude for twenty
eight years.

3.  A character that comes into play in the second half of the
book. Friday is a twenty-six-year-old Caribbean native
and cannibal. Friday becomes Crusoe’s servant after
Crusoe saves his life when Friday is about to be eaten by
other cannibals. Friday is in fact named for the day that
he was saved.

4.  A minor character. He is a slave that Robinson escapes
with after his imprisonment in Sal lee. HE comes to
trust the boy. However when he is rescued by a
Portuguese captain, Robinson is quick to sell Xury to
him.

5.  He is never named however he
plays an important role in the
story. He rescues Robinson and
brings him to Brazil where he
helps set Robinson up as a
plantation owner. During
Robinson's 28 year absence, the
captain maintained his
plantation so that when he
returned he had made a small
fortune in Brazil.

6.  One of the men from the
Spanish ship that is wrecked off
Crusoe’s island, and whose crew
is rescued by the cannibals and
taken to a neighboring island.
The Spaniard is doomed to be
eaten as a ritual victim of the
cannibals when Crusoe saves
him. In exchange, he becomes a
new “subject” in Crusoe’s
“kingdom,” at least according to
Crusoe. The Spaniard is never
fleshed out much as a character
in Crusoe’s narrative, an example
of the odd impersonal attitude
often notable in Crusoe.

7.  Appearing briefly, but on
two separate occasions in
the novel, the widow keeps
Crusoe’s 200 pounds safe in
England throughout all his
thirty-five years of
journeying. She returns it
loyally to Crusoe upon his
return to England and, like
the Portuguese captain and
Friday, reminds us of the
goodwill and
trustworthiness of which
humans can be capable,
whether European or not.