Question

Q No 1. Explore colonial concerns in Robinson Crusoe with reference to setting and characters in the novel. ​

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HEY

Representation can be defined as the presentation of an object, individual, idea or entity

not by drawing it as it is but by “representing” it or preparing it in a new structure or a new form.

The discourse of colonialism defines “others” as colonial subjects by constructing them in a

process of representation. Colonial representation presents semiotic meanings in which words,

characters or situations often express contradictory or complementary impulses, attitudes. The

various forms of representations like visual, textual actually show calculative “images” which

are connected with power of inequalities and subordination. Colonial representation is a political

representation that cannot be “natural” or “true”. It is constructed with false images, images that

relate with colonizers ideology. In this dissertation my intention is to explore colonial

representation through the novels of three European writers, E. M. Forster, Joseph Conrad and

Daniel Defoe. These three writers deal with colonial discourses which reveal foreign cultures as

“dark” and “depraved”. Representation of the minority image again and again comes as evil

where European images are considered pure and superior.

In the first chapter I will look at the colonial aspects of Robinson Crusoe where an

Englishman asserts and reasserts his Christian moral and British superiority in order to consider

his sense of identity and I will also show how subjugation, domination, profit and power are

reflected in the adventure fiction.

In the second chapter I will discuss how Conrad represents Africa in Heart of Darkness

and establishes an imperialist ideology that represents the colonists and the colonized in a binary

opposition. I will also show how Conrad portrayed the people? The west as rational and superior

while the Africans - other as inferior.