How does Daniel Defoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’justify colonialism? Explain

CBSE Class 10 CBSE Class 10 Social Science
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How does Daniel Defoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’justify colonialism? Explain.

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  1. DANIEL DEFOE’S ‘Robinson Crusoe’ made the readers feel that they are a part of superior community.
  2. The hero is slave trader and adventurer.
  3. He treats coloured people not as human beings equal to him but as inferiors.
  4. He rescues a native and makes him his slave and calls him ‘FRIDAY’.
  5. He idolizes the idea that colonised people are primitive, barbaric and less than humans.