Less on the mundane, more on visitors
to the island
Survival now requires more action
Shift from introspection to observation
More resources and people to manage
Feeling of haste, more external
stimulus
Protective of his domain
Initially, time is specific, then
it becomes general, and then it becomes specific again
Application of all his musings and thoughts; additional figures allow his
theories to become more widespread practices
Additional figures advance the
plot
Passage of time allows for maturity
of trees and thought
Defoe preserves sense of reserve
and he is building on the climax of the story
Course Review
Classical and Formalist Theories:
Plato conceived of eternal forms
Aristotle looked at formal elements
Application of these ideas to the
Indian Queen
Historical and Sociological approaches:
Marx takes a historical and sociological perspective on Crusoe.
He looks at how value is generated--he privileges use value over value
of a commodity
Hunter: offers a sociological reading of Crusoe and says not to read too
much into history; meanwhile, he uses history to document his argument
about the religious climate
Burke: Argues that proverbs and sayings are lessons for life; we can find
in literature similar lessons for life :"Keep your weather eye open" his
approach is sociological
Mythopoetic and Structural Approaches:
Saussure looks at how language is a convention, he breaks it up into
its components
Jung looks at how archetypes appear in literature and in the collective
imagination
Frye also looks at archetypes and reappearing plots and symbols--criticism
should be a science
Postcolonialism:
Reevaluates the application
of history. Looks at representations of the Other; Looks at the relationship
between the colonized and the colonizer (Caribbean islanders and Columbus
evaluated later by Todorov: Conquest of America: Questions of the Other
(1984) Or Jean Rhys's response to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre with
her own Wide Sargasso Sea)