What actions of Robinson Crusoe make us see him as a typical coloniser?
Actions of Robinson Crusoe:
(i)Shipwrecked on an island, Crusoe treats coloured people not as human beings equal to him, but as inferior creatures.
(ii)He rescues a ‘native’ and makes him his slave.
(iii)He does not ask for his name but arrogantly gives him the name Friday.
Social changes in Britain which led to an increase in women readers.
Outline the changes in technology and society which led to an increase in the readers of the novel in the eighteenth century Europe.
Novelists in colonial India wrote for a political cause.
After 1740, the readership of novels began to include poorer people.
