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Bah, Adama. "The Augmentation of Existentialism: Robinson Crusoe’s Character." Shanlax International Journal of English 8, no. 4 (September 1, 2020): 35–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/english.v8i4.3354.

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The novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, theme depicts the philosophy of existentialism. Existentialism argues the existence of humans through freedom of choice of the existence of who or what to become. The Robinson Crusoe character’s struggle to realize his freedom of life and defend his existence exemplars the existentialism. Robinson was adamant to his fathers’ advice and went to the sea. This paper discusses the characteristics of existentialism evident in the novel Robinson Crusoe. These aspects include the essence of existence, existence precedes essence, human alienation or estrangement, Fear and Trembling Anxiety, The Encounter with Nothingness, and Freedom. The relationships between existence and freedom of choice in human life establish the fact on augmentation of existentialism, as seen in Robinson Crusoe Character.
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Sturgess, Philip John Moore. "Robinson Crusoe - the Character of Representation." Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines 26, no. 1 (1993): 75–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/ranam.1993.1271.

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Kexin, Xu. "Robinson Crusoe: A Product of Elective Affinity of the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism." Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 12, no. 03 (March 17, 2024): 91–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.36347/sjahss.2024.v12i03.002.

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Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe takes a sailor named Alexander Selkirk as its prototype, telling a story of the protagonist Robinson Crusoe’s life and adventure, especially his experience on an island for 28 years. Critics argue that there are two major themes in the novel: economic individualism and religious belief, and more or less believe that making a good fortune and spiritual pursuit are opposite. However, analysis of the protagonist from a single perspective--economics or religion--inevitably leads to contradiction of understanding the character. This paper analyzes Robinson Crusoe from the theoretical perspective of Max Weber’s Protestant ethic and spirit of capitalism, seeking the “elective affinity” of the two. Crusoe is an ambitious adventurer, a diligent laborer and a lonely ascetic, all of which has an elective affinity with the Protestant ethic. Meanwhile, Robinson Crusoe converts to religion to guide his life. His seemingly contradictory behaviors reflects that he is in fact a product of the elective affinity of the economic ideology and the religious consciousness.
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Mohammad, Ahmed A., Hawara N. Karim, and Rebin A. Azeez. "Response to Individualism in Robinson Crusoe." Koya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 2, no. 1 (May 24, 2019): 124–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.14500/kujhss.v2n1y2019.pp124-130.

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In this explorative study, the response to individualism in Robinson Crusoe as a character in the novel written by Daniel Defoe is scrutinized. Over 40 participants in English Language Department took role while they were studying the novel in their full academic year. In conformity with data collection, pre-test and post-test were administered on the students using individualism inventory. Their opinions in both tests were analyzed using quantitative measures. The focus of the study is to determine if students get any lessons of life from the novel namely, Crusoe's lonely life on the island, and how they are going to apply it in their own real lives on the one hand. On the other, whether or not their attitudes get affected by the individual and solitude life Crusoe experienced. That is, their psychological status and self-awareness about their individual life and community as collective. The findings confirm that students of English department on Faculty of Education were psychologically changed and have more appreciation of collective which is the community and their self-awareness as individuals. This suggests that novels provide not only knowledge chiefly related to language proficiency, but also psychological, social, and intellectual in the long run.
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Nforbin, Gerald Niba. "Identity, Power and Otherness: A Postcolonial-Oriental Reading of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe." Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 10, no. 7 (July 9, 2023): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/assrj.107.15028.

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This paper offers a postcolonial-oriental reading of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. The study employs the postcolonial theory, principally, Edward Said’s orientalism and his concept of contrapuntal reading, which investigates the contextual circumstances of a text’s production. Such a reading demonstrates that, in plot, setting, thematic content and characterization, Robinson Crusoe is a prototypical colonial narrative, shaped by colonial discourse and reflects the dominant imperialist ideologies of its time concerning race, identity and otherness. British colonialism informs nearly every feature of Robinson Crusoe, and, in its orientalist rhetoric, the novel clearly reproduces the imperialistic ideology of its time. Friday’s existence in the text generates oriental ‘othering’ (which establishes his identity as the colonized) and serves both as a reminder of the colonial expansion of the British Empire and of the era’s dominant, imperialistic discourse and perceived superiority of Englishness. Imperialism started to influence English national identity as colonizer as early as the eighteenth centuries with the English thinking more highly of themselves on account of their contact with colonized peoples, as epitomized in the character and personality of Defoe’s protagonist, Robinson Crusoe. As narrator, Crusoe’s attitude towards non-Europeans and his use of racial slurs are clearly in line with the era’s orientalist rhetoric, which traditionally attributed traits outside British ideal values and accepted norms to the colonized or Eastern other.
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Chung, Iksoon. "The problems of identity of Robinson Crusoe in the 18th century novel." Korean Society of Human and Nature 4, no. 1 (June 30, 2023): 11–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.54913/hn.2023.4.1.11.

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The 18th century in England was a period when theories and discourses were being seriously discussed. While achieving political stability in industrious revolution, the scientific interpretation of classics and the spirit of a new era in the novels influenced the direction of human life. The novel gave birth to a new human identity. The most representative novel among them is Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The characters in the novel show the attributes of human identity in ideal culture and society. They produce the meaning of a new identity in the events. Although they are ordinary people, they reproduce human life as the epitome of intellectuals in buildungsroman. Here we consciously believe identity is interpreted differently depending on who the subject of the action accordingly is. Furthermore, we understand human behavior by looking at their possible action and personality. Identity is perceived as terms such as paradox, image, existence, and hypothesis are related to human life. Therefore, identity in the situation requires objects that can imitate human beings. Even though identity in a novel is a fiction, we match identity with a specific character. This paper studies how to recognize identity through the works of Plato, Aristotle, and Crusoe who is the main character of Robinson Crusoe.
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Arafah, Burhanuddin, Juliastuti Sirajuddin, Magfirah Thayyib, Fahmi Room, Takwa, and Wan Anayati. "Emotional Management of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe's Main Character." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 14, no. 5 (September 1, 2023): 1414–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1405.30.

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This study aims to describe and reveal the main character's emotional management in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, a Penguin classics novel published in London in 1994. This study employs a descriptive qualitative technique and Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic approach. The research data was derived from the novel's narrations and portrayal of the main character. The study found that the main character's psychology employed a defensive mechanism to regulate all the emotions that arose. The main character in this work uses suppression, rationalization, reaction construction, regression, anger and indifference, and imagination. Repression serves as the main character's protection mechanism in the narrative. The main character demonstrated that he attempted to channel his melancholy into thankfulness and to turn his anxiety into rational thinking.
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Hemangi, Hemangi, and Tanya D’souza. "Can the “Mutelated” Subaltern be Free? Reading Friday’s Subversion in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe." IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities 9, no. 1 (July 29, 2022): 73–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.1.06.

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J. M. Coetzee’s 1986 novel Foe tells the story of Susan Barton, who has boarded a ship bound for Lisbon in her search for her kidnapped daughter. After a mutiny on the ship she is set adrift, washing ashore on the island inhabited by “Cruso” and Friday and intruding into their ongoing adventure. Her account is then inserted into the original Robinson Crusoe story line, which is redrawn following Susan Barton’s perspective. The original text’s recontextualization illustrates the effort by Coetzee to render the story in categories that are relevant to a contemporary cultural context. Like Robinson Crusoe, it is a frame story, developed while Barton is in England attempting to convince writer Daniel Foe to help transform her tale into popular fiction. Friday is a character whose marginality – as it first appears in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe – is carried forward in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe, as this new version of Friday is that of a more disempowered and dysfunctional subject, one doubly mutilated – orally and sexually. This paper aims to study Friday’s subversive subalternity in Coetzee’s work by using postcolonial methodology with a view to uncover his unique, rebellious behaviour and his capacity to define his own modes of freedom.
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AI-Harshan, Hazmah Ali. "A Post-Colonial Re-Reading of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe." Journal of World Englishes and Educational Practices 3, no. 12 (December 23, 2021): 21–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/jweep.2021.3.12.3.

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The imperial project started to influence English national identity as early as the mid-seventeenth century, and the English began to relate their national prominence to their colonial activities, whether in trade or in the acquisition of foreign territories, throughout the eighteenth century. However, England experienced its share of anxieties on the road to imperial "greatness" in its dealings with both other European powers and its native subjects. The British people's tendency to examine themselves and their international achievements with intense pride helped to neutralize those anxieties, much like Crusoe's imagined responses to possible dangers alleviate his fictional forebodings. The English ameliorated their concerns about their international position by becoming an ever more self-referential society, thinking more highly of themselves on account of their contact with colonized peoples, as is epitomized in the personality of Crusoe. To the fictional Crusoe, the experience of his relationship with Friday validates his self-worth and his native culture more than anything else. Robinson Crusoe's affirmation of colonial power through the assertion of his authority over a particular (othered) individual corresponds with, and epitomizes, England's trading and territorial empire during the eighteenth century and the consequent effects on British subjectivity, at a time when the British were struggling to set up a trading empire and challenging other European powers for territory and markets abroad. Robinson Crusoe successfully resolves the insecurities relating to Britain's colonial activities by asserting, through Crusoe's character, the superior nature of the English subject.
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Lipski, Jakub. "Configurations of Friday’s Body in the 1750s Robinsonade." Nordic Journal of English Studies 23, no. 1 (April 10, 2024): 9–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.35360/njes.2024.23281.

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The English Robinsonade as a form thrived in the 1750s, but in a variant that revealed affinities not only with Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe but also Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, and the imaginary voyage more broadly. A central position in this micro-tradition was occupied by Robert Paltock’s Peter Wilkins (1751), the popularity of which resulted in several fictions written in its wake, including Ralph Morris’s John Daniel (1751), William Bingfield by an anonymous author (1753), and Adolphus Bannac’s Crusoe Richard Davis (1756). These narratives explored both the Robinsonade conventions and aspects of the poetics of wonder to offer a variety of ‘Friday’ configurations, from hybrid animals to winged or feathered women. This article reads the aesthetic and ideological meanings behind these ‘strange surprizing’ character constructs.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Robinson Crusoe (Fictitious character)"

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Nikoleishvili, Sophia. "The many faces of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe examining the Crusoe myth in film and on television /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4786.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on February 27, 2008) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Books on the topic "Robinson Crusoe (Fictitious character)"

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Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. Rearsby: Clipper Large Print, 2012.

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Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. London: Arcturus, 2009.

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Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. Cutchogue, NY: Buccaneer Books, 1986.

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Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. West Berlin, N.J: Townsend Library, 2007.

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Murgatroyd, Nicholas. Robinson Crusoe. Madrid: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. Raleigh, N.C: Alex Catalogue, 1996.

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Johnson, Dan. Robinson Crusoe. New Delhi: Kalyani Navyug Media, 2009.

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Murgatroyd, Nicholas. Robinson Crusoe. Madrid: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Blaisdell, Robert. Robinson Crusoe. New York: Dover Publications, 1995.

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Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. 1994.

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Book chapters on the topic "Robinson Crusoe (Fictitious character)"

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Engélibert, Jean-Paul. "Daniel Defoe as Character: Subversion of the Myths of Robinson Crusoe and of the Author." In Robinson Crusoe, 267–81. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13677-3_20.

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Ohi, Kevin. "Robinson Crusoe and the Inception of Speech." In Inceptions, 73–90. Fordham University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823294626.003.0004.

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Dwelling on the strange redundancies and formal excesses of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, this chapter traces in the novel’s paradoxically exorbitant consolidation of interiority the inception of the psychological novel. In the novel’s allegory, Crusoe is removed (by two shipwrecks) to his solitary island, where the social can be reconstituted and produced as a drama of one. The chapter explores several instances of the expropriating, anticipatory, self-grounding structure of character formation in the novel: the dream anticipating the appearance of Friday, whose language lessons are anticipated, in turn, by the speech of the parrot. Briefly considering J.M. Coetzee’s Foe, the chapter then turns to Jean-Claude Milner’s essay “Être-Seul,” which traces a paradoxical relation between the speaking subject and the social world of speech, one that rhymes with Defoe’s allegory of inception. The solitude of the speaking being, Milner suggests, is the ground of his speaking. Marooned by the very faculty of speech that would ostensibly allow us to address another or others, this solitude, however, portends a paradoxical form of community. We have it, paradoxically, in common, that we are each of us alone; Milner’s account of the solitude of speech thus illuminates the layered account of inception in Defoe.
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Peter J., Katz. "Plastic Bodies: The Scientist, Vital Mechanics and Ethical Habits of Character in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone." In Reading Bodies in Victorian Fiction, 117–59. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474476201.003.0005.

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This chapter explores habit and character through Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone and the work of William Benjamin Carpenter. Beginning with an analysis of the mechanism/vitalism debates between Carpenter and Huxley, the chapter establishes the idea of character as central to mid-century Associationism. It then explores reading and writing surfaces in The Moonstone as sites where Carpenter’s “acquired habitudes of thought” play out – particularly in the passages around Ezra Jennings. In the novel, those who believe that they can accurately read bodies tend to inflict violence on those bodies. Characters like Gabriel Betteredge, who treats Robinson Crusoe as a divine text, ignore lived suffering because they believe that they have the right to interpret bodies and texts as they see fit. At the same time, marginalised bodies are harmed in order that the middle-class, male bodies can learn to improve their reading – and thereby their character.
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Bensusan, Hilan. "The Metaphysics of the Others." In Indexicalism, 78–133. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474480291.003.0003.

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Chapter 2 provides an elaboration of the metahysics of the others that follows from indexicalism. The analysis the others as an indexical entail a recommendation of the injunction formulated by Anna Tsing: tell the world with the best of one’s capacities and leave space in the ground for alternative narratives. The injunction, in its turn, is connected to Amerindian perspectivism and its insistence in the deictic character of any narrative. The metaphysics of the others is contrasted to Meillassoux’s speculative materialism and a method of bound speculation is then outlined. The chapter engages with Deleuze’s analysis of Michel Tournier’s Robinson Crusoe to discuss how the others relate to the Great Outdoors. In order to step from the Levinasian Other to the Great Outdoors, two approaches are examined: the one around Silvia Benso’s attempt to expand Levinas’ approach to faces to all things and the one provided by Jacques Derrida’s notion of ‘supplement’.
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