Abstract:
This paper aims to show that Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe as
a representational work of human civilization. It discusses the
preoccupation of the work in its historical backdrop and evaluates
as to what extent the work allegorizes the human civilization.
Ideological baggage of the period is touched on to lay out an
understanding in this view. Moreover, the origins of a capitalist
era and the modernist emphasis of individualism are underlined.
The paper ends with the note that the work could be positively
seen as an allegorical work of human civilization despite the fact
that it is predominantly focused on a single individual, and runs
short of the collective subjectivity of Mankind.
