Robinson Crusoe, as a young and impulsive wanderer, defied his parents and went to sea

MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND INNOVATIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN


FERGANA STATE UNIVERSITY


FOREIGN LANGUAGES FACULTY
COURSE PAPER
THEME: Comparison of the styles of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe with Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels'


GROUP: 20-123
Done by: Karimova Xabibaxon
Supervisor: Adamboeva N

FERGANA– 2023

CONTENTS

Introduction 3
CHAPTER I. Daniel Defoe and his novel “Robinson Crusoe” 5
1.1. History of the novel 5
1.2. Daniel Defoe and his personality 17
CHAPTER II. ANALYSIS OF THE NOVEL 25
2.1. The sours of the “Robinson Crusoe’s Adventures” 25
2.2. Robinson Crusoe and his character 27
Conclusion 42
BIBLIOGRAPHY 45

Introduction

The actuality of the course paper. The course paper is dedicated to the study of Daniel Defoe’s world famous novel “Robinson Crusoe”. The theme is very interesting and is worth of paying special attention. Uzbek readers enjoy reading the novel immensely. The book is rightly included to the list of masterpieces even created by Daniel Defoe. The author’s work is estimated and read both by grown ups and children. Daniel Defoe founder of the early bourgeois realistic novel and he was the first and fore most a journalist, and in many ways the father of modern English periodicals.
Here we read one more fact: “The review” which he founded in 1704 and conducted until 1713, is regarded as the first English newspaper. It paved the way for the magazines “The Tattler” and “The spectator” Daniel Defoe was born in London in a family of non-conformists (those who refuse to accept the doctrines of an established or national Church, especially those protestants who form the Church of England.¹
The aim of the course paper. The course paper attempts to focus on the issue of human nature in different political stages in Robinson Crusoe with some comparative examples from Gulliver’s Travels and study the theories of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke on individualism and human nature. Hobbes and Locke, the seventeenth century philosophers, are known for their political philosophies on human nature and the development of social societies and governments by this. These features can be seen in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe clearly and they can be scrutinized in this respect, for Defoe’s views on human nature are similar to these two philosophers’ thoughts. We can recognize both the individualism and egocentricity in Robinson Crusoe’s character, and his fears and doubts that depict human nature perfectly. Moreover, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, which was written as a satire on human nature in the same period with Robinson Crusoe, also points out and criticizes different emotions in human psychology.
All above mentioned matters are discussed in the Introduction and Chapter One. The next Chapter - Chapter Two is devoted to the description of the main hero’s character. The whole paper is mainly about the merits of the writer and Robinson’s history.
The practical value of the course paper. Human nature has always been analyzed because of its complexity and incoherence. It is generally regarded as being egoist, self-centered, and thinking of his own profit more than anything. Besides these negative sides, many rights were believed to be bestowed to humanity, as people are different from animals and they have reason. Reason is one of the merits that make people free and the judges of their own conditions. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, the seventeenth century philosophers, are known for their political philosophies on human nature and the development of social societies and governments by this. Their concern is on the evolution of the modern societies from the nature in relation to the psychology and the mind of human beings.
These features can be seen in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe clearly and they can be scrutinized in this respect, for Defoe’s views on human nature are similar to these two philosophers’ thoughts. We see the human condition in different political stages in the process of creation of governmental societies. We can recognize both the individualism and egocentricity in Robinson Crusoe’s character, and his fears and doubts that depict human nature perfectly. Moreover, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, which was written as a satire on human nature in the same period with Robinson Crusoe, also points out and criticizes different emotions in human psychology.