ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Robinson Crusoe’s isolation on a deserted island allows Defoe to explore his development in which of the following ways?
A
His relationship to God and Christianity
B
His understanding of the basis of economics
C
His ability to identify with the slaves he has sold
D
Both A and B
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The tide took him to a small cove and from here he searched for a safe place to stay, protected from wild beasts and other dangers. Climbing to the top of a hill, he discovered that he was on an island which he believed to be uninhabited. He killed a strange fowl only to discover that it was inedible.

Detailed explanation-2: -2. How did he end up there? Ans: Robinson Crusoe’s ship crashed in the sea near the island. He was the lone survivor and he ended up there on the deserted island.

Detailed explanation-3: -Robinson Crusoe ended up on an island because the ship he was in was shipwrecked in a storm. Just by reading the given information, it can easily be said that Robinson Crusoe ended up on an island because he was “caft on Shore by Shipwreck”. Explanation: I didn’t feel anything when he finally reached the shore.

Detailed explanation-4: -Crusoe finds grapes, hares, foxes and even penguins on the island, suggesting a temperate rather than a tropical climate. He describes his island as a “dreadful place, out of the reach of humane kind, out of all hope of relief or prospect of redemption".

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