Robinson Crusoe | Social Sensitivity
Robinson Crusoe contains references to two issuesracism and religionthat should be addressed by parents and teachers of precocious young readers. Certainly Crusoe's attitudes toward Xury, his companion in slavery and his fellow fugitive, and toward Friday, his faithful servant, are typical of the seventeenth-century English condescension toward people odarker-skinneded races. Crusoe clearly believes the white man to be superior to other races. Furthermore, Crusoe's business ventures have included slave trading. But Crusoe is very much a man of his time. His brand of bigotry is,...
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