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84 My thoughts about Robinson Crusoe When I study at a primary school, I read Robinson Course first time.?And I have to say, I was deeply attracted by the adventure story at that time. Generally speaking, Robinson is a person who is very brave, forceful and aggressive. Crusoe sets sail from the Queens Dock in Hull on a sea voyage in August 1651, against the wishes of his parents, who wants him to pursue a career, possibly in law.?After a tumultuous journey where his ship is wrecked in a storm, his lust for the sea remains so strong that he sets out to sea again.?This journey, too, ends in disaster as the ship is taken over by sale pirates and Crusoe is enslaved by a Moor.?Two years later, he escapes in a boat with a boy named Xury; a Captain of a Portuguese ship off the west coast of Africa rescues him.?The ship is en route to Brazil.?Crusoe sells Xury to the captain.?With the captains help, Crusoe procures a plantation. In my opinion, Robin is the true prototype of the British colonist.?The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.?This is achieved through the use of European technology, agriculture and even a rudimentary political hierarchy.?Several times in the novel Crusoe refer to himself as the king of the island, whilst the captain describes him as the governor to the mutineers.?At the very end of the novel the island is explicitly referred to as a colony.?The idealized master-servant relationship Defoe depicts between Crusoe and Friday can also be seen in terms of cultural imperialism.?Crusoe represents the enlightened European whilst Friday is the savage who can only be redeemed from his barbarous way of life through assimilation into Crusoes culture.?Nonetheless Defoe also takes the opportunity to criticize the historic Spanish conquest of South America. To be brief,