FL 3501-0

Brief

Daniel Defoe’s (1660?-1731) Robinson Crusoe is a trilogy of adventure stories consisting of three novels--The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719), The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719), and Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe (1720). In these texts, the novelist embodies the ideology of mercantilism and colonial expansion which, in turn, intersect and re-enforce each other. Therefore, we can clearly see that the protagonist is a typical colonizer, who roves all over the globe to go on expeditions, to cultivate plantations, and to accumulate capitals. Being at the threshold of the industrial revolution, the English society was driven to explore new territory, to secure the supply of raw materials, and to search for new markets. To be sure, Crusoe has no scruples about betraying his own ideas or upholding contradictory doctrines, insofar as his interest is concerned. As Maximillian E. Novak has pointed out that Defoe is “a propagandist for so

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Scores

Average Percentage 85.4

Std. Deviation 21.42

Remarks

16週課程,107起入學生欲視為選讀英文而非通識於畢審作業時另行主張,【108(含)前入學生視為核心向度三】

Restrictions

外語系優先，第3次選課起開放全校修習

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Elective

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