How did the novels written in 18th century glorify colonization?
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During 18th century the writing of novels and colonizing the planet started at the same time in Europe.
1)These novels authorized victimization. for instance, the hero of Daniel Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe' is AN adventurer and victimize. Shipwrecked on AN island, he treats the colored individuals as inferior. He rescues a native and renames him as 'Friday' and tries to alter him culturally. His behavior wasn't seen as unacceptable.
2)Most of the writers and readers believed that the colonized individuals were primitive and barbaric and therefore the colonial rule was essential to civilize them.
And also during 18th century novels the women's play a vital role in the colonization.
Especially in India Independent and assertive however ladies novelists failed to merely popularize the domestic role of girls.
Such stories allowed ladies readers to sympathies with rebellious actions. In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Lake Eyre, printed in 1847, young Jane is shown as freelance and assertive.
whereas ladies of her time were expected to shut up and well behaved, Jane at the age of 10 protests against the hypocrisy of her elders with surprising bluntness.