Individualism in the Robinson Crusoe

1. Name:- Ekta Jayswal
Class:- M.A. Sem: 1
Roll No:- 13
Paper No:- 2 [The Neo - Classical Literature]
Enrolment No:- PG 2069108420180027
Year:- 2017/19
Email ID:-ektajayswal12@gmail.com
Submitted to:- Dr. Dilip Barad
S.B.Gardi English Department .
M.K.B.U.

2. Daniel Defoe
• Born in 1660 ,in
London.
• Altered his original
surname Foe to Defoe.
• Consider as a
founder of the english
novel.
• Writing novels, at the
age of sixty.
• Wrote 100 best
novels;and No. 2 is
Robinson Crusoe.
• Defoe's novels mainly
concerned with the
idea of individuality..

3. • Defoe was a great
innovator.
He used the simple,
direct, fact - based
style on the middle
classes.
He deals with the
growth and
development of
individual in
Solitude.

4. About Robinson
Crusoe
• A novel belongs to genre
of realistic novel.
• Based on the true story of
a shipwrecked seaman
named Alaxander Selkirk.
• Crusoe deals with the life
of an individual
character..
• He follows his own
inclination and design ...
• He proves to be hard -
hearted and disobedient...

5. About the character Robinson Crusoe
• * He acts independently and chooses against the advice of others...
• * Crusoe keeps accounts of his normal day-to-day activities..
• * Enthusiastic in various ways.
• * Crusoe make shift calendar marks the days he has spent on the
island...
• * Keeps a journal to record his daily activities..
• * Crusoe’s impulse toward self-awareness in the fact that he teaches
his parrot to say the words, “Poor Robin Crusoe. . . . Where have you
been?”
• * This sort of self-examining thought is natural for anyone alone on a
desert island...
• * Crusoe teaches nature itself to voice his own self-awareness....

6. What is an Individualism?
• In refers to philosophy that an
Individual should have freedom in
his own economic and political
persuits...
• Can be traced to Greek
philosopher Aristotle(384 - 322
BC),who argued that individual
diversity and private ownership
are desirable...
• The habit of being independant
and self - relient ; behaviour
characterised by the pursuit of
one's own goals without reference
to others.

7. Definition of Individualism
• The habit or principle of
being Independent and self
- relient .....
• Individualism is the moral
stance, political
philosophy,ideology or social
outlook that emphasizes the
moral worth of the
Individual....

8. The theme of Individuality in
Robinson Crusoe......
 The character lives according to his own way,he serves
his own way..
 Robinson Crusoe deals with the life of an individual
character.
 An individual man who spends many years on isolated
island.
 He yarns to work his way up from the common middle
position of life to a high one..
 crusoe conquers his fears, and resigns himself to being
alone....

9. • The idea of individualism is stressed and highlighted in this novel.
• Robinson’s character refers to the life of people from the middle
class.
• They don’t inherit money but they make it by their own effort, and
with great deal of labor and pain.
• Robinson does not act passively but he plans his life.
• He has certain vision which he wants to achieve.
• He has to face a lot of difficulties and pains.
• He has to struggle for his own survival.