Robinson Crusoe as a myth.

1. Name:-Heerva Bhatt
Course:- M.A.(sem.1)
Paper no.:-2(The Neo-classical literature)
Roll no.:-14
Batch:-2017-2019
Topic:-Robinson Crusoe as a myth.
Email Id :-heervabhatt96@gmail.com
Submitted :-Smt.S.B.Gardi Department of
English,Bhavnagar.

2. Daniel Dafoe:-
■ Daniel Dafoe (1659/60-1731)was an English
trader,writer,journalist,pamphleteer and spy,Most famous for his novel
Robinson Crusoe.
■ He was also a Pioneer of economic journalism.
■ He not only write novels but also write poems like the true born En.
His Novels:-
■ The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
■ Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson
Crusoe:with his vision of a cavalier
■ Capitan Singleton
■ A Journal of the plague year
■ Colonel Jack
■ Moll Flanders

3. Robinson Crusoe :-
• Robinson Crusoe is one of tne
famous novel of Daniel Defoe.
• Many people think that this was
his real life incidence.
• Crusoe’s ship face a thunder
and crash down.
• Luckily he succeed in saving his
life,with him also a dog and a
cat comes on the Island.
• He think that he is all alone on
that Island.
• Then he start thinking that he is

4. Definition of Myth:-
“A traditional Story,especially one concerning the
early
history of a people or explaining a natural or social
phenomenon,and typically involving supernatural
beings or
events.”

5. • If we want to create myth
than we need someone
who can carry our myth in
future.
• Here Crusoe find Friday
who’s life saved by him
and force him to obey
Crusoe with the fear of
weapons.
• Here we can see
Robinson powerful than
Friday.

6. ■ He taught him English Language ,the rules of Christian
religion so called mannerism.
■ Because he was all alone on that island he tried that
everything should controlled by him.
■ Here we can also see that he want to be like God , something
against nature like Dr,Faustus by Christopher Marlowe.

7. We can see
from this
picture that he
established a
cross on that
island.
This symbol tell
that Crusoe is
the king of this
island.

8. THANKYOU.