The document discusses Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe and analyzes two dreams that the protagonist Crusoe has in the story. It first provides background on Defoe and an overview of some of his major works, including Robinson Crusoe. It then discusses Sigmund Freud's theory of the unconscious mind and dream interpretation. Finally, it analyzes Crusoe's dreams - one where he sees an angel after falling ill, representing his fears of death, and another where he rescues a native from cannibals which foreshadows his later rescue and gaining of Friday as a companion.

1. M.K. BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY
 NAME :-Parmar MilanKumar L.
Roll No:- 16
Enrollment no : 14101026
Course no:- 2 - Neo classic literature
 Topic: Analysis of Robinson Crusoe’s dream.
Submitted to:- Department of
English
Smt.S.B.Gardi
M.K.B.University

2.  Daniel Defoe, born Daniel Foe, was an
English trader, writer, novelist, journalist,
pamphleteer, and spy.
 September 1 , 1660, in London.
 Died on 24 April, 1731, in London.
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Introduction of the writer

3. His well known works are
Robinson Crusoe (1790)
Moll Flanders (1722)
Captain singleton (1720)
A Journal of the Plague year (1722)
Colonel Jack (1722).

4. Father of psychoanalysis (1856-1939)
“The Interpretation of Dream” (1931)
“Nothing you do occurs by chance, every
action and every thought motivated by our
unconscious at some level”
He begins to analyze dreams in order to
understand the aspect of personality.
 urges and impulses coming to the
surface in disguised forms in the dreams.

5. Aspects of Mind
Ego
(conscious)
Super ego
(sub conscious)
Id
(unconscious)

6.  id:- centered around primal impulses,
pleasure, desires, unchecked urges and wish
fulfillment, Including dreams.
Ego:- centered with the conscious, the
rational. The moral and self aware aspect of
mind.
Super ego:- the sensor for the id, which is also
responsible for enforcing moral codes.

7. Dreams in ‘Robinson Crusoe’
 A dream of angel spirit or of his
father’s spirit
A dream in which he saved Friday
from the cannibals.

8. The first dream he saw while he was very ill,
He felt that he was about to die. He saw this terrible
dream because he was very ill.
 In another way we can say that his thinking about the
past memory force him to see that dream.
We can say that during that time his conscious
mind(ego) was working. He has regret for his past
deeds. He was thinking about moral and religious
things.
There is some kind of fear in his mind, fear of death so
he was thinking about God. And see the dream of
angel.

9. • In another way he was puritan man so religion is
deeply rooted in his mind, before he sleep he think
much about the god so, it was his thoughts which
converted in to the dream.
• Second dream, Crusoe had a strange dream. He
dreamed that two canoes bringing eleven savages
landed on his shore and that another savage, whom
he believed they were going to kill, ran into Crusoe's
fortification. Crusoe, smiling and encouraging him,
made him his servant. He had the impression that
the savage would serve him and guide him from the
island

10. • The second dream works under the principles of
attraction according to which
“ all the things coming in your life, you are attracting
them, and they attract by those images, which you
have keep/saved in your mind, whatever going in your
mind, indirectly you are attracting those things
towards you.”
Here in the novel Crusoe always thinks to have
companion with help of him he can save himself, and
guide him to go back to home.
After a year or more time his dream and wish fulfilled
by having Friday.