... 1719, is an important literary piece of the Enlightenment period, as it expresses the Enlightenment themes of individualism, exploration and the rejection of authority. The poet James Joyce has described the character of Robinson Crusoe as the "true prototype of the British colonist"1, and Robinson Crusoe certainly shares many of the characteristics associated with British colonists of the period in which ... the activities of a British colonist, developing a plantation, and taking part in slavery and the international slave trade. All of these factors I will discuss explain why the cha...

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