My island was now peopled, and I thought myself very rich in subjects; and it was a merry reflection, which I frequently made, how like a king I looked. First of all, the whole country was my own mere property, Baso that I had an undoubted right of dominion. Secondly, my people were perfectly subjected. I was absolute lord and lawgiver, they all owed their lives to me, and were ready to lay down their lives, if there had been occasion of it, for me.”

I am not sure whether he was a king or not, but there is a subject which I am sure, he was a king of boasting. He labelled everything with “my”, it is annoying, I think. It is kind of selfish because he never thought the other living creatures. I think that he called Friday without asking also shows us that.

What kind of a person could think in that way? I think it is too much even for a person who were injured psycohologically. Seeing himself as a lord or lawgiver could not explain his way of thinking for me.

As a matter of course, in the 18^th century, sections of literature stayed in the background. People could not find food to eat, how were they going to think something else?

 

I am terribly sorry for children especially for the ones who could not live because of poverty. On the other hand, even if they lived, they had to work deadly. It should not make you surprise not to develop the literature in that times.

 

It is pleasing that there were many changes later. For instance, female readers increased and people needed to be knowledgeable about literature, I mean they started to be interested in. But they did not still use feelings for literature and write a poem because they wanted to. Unfortunately poetry was mostly satiric and heroic. Normally this is bad, but when it was considered the time, it was a huge development.

When I was younger, I read Robinson Crusoe and it is not like in that times now, he seems like very arrogant to me at this time. The movie is different from the book anyway. It was my favourite when I was kid, but when I read itby criticising, it has lost its magic for me.

 

Although he became stranded on a deserted island, he did not give up ruling the island and he still thought about goods and golds. Also he did not ask Friday’s real name, he gives that name and he made him call as “master” for himself. In spite of the fact that it is a wonderful adventure, it is different from an innocent story and it is engraved in our subconscious without being noticed to us.

On the other hand, it is ironic that Robinson Crusoe needed to someone to be the king of the island. That he tried to manage Friday reveals his feeling which exists inside before I think. I am shocked when I read the part of it mentioning “my people”. Also I think the time he spent in island were exaggerated too much. I wish it would have a simply meaning like my childhood.

 

 

 

That John Milton created a charismatic and very strong satan in Paradise Lost made me surprised. I think he took sides of satan unwittingly when I read it. Actually he is very very good at writing but I think again that his works have sharp points decreases his popularity.

 

I appreciate that he successed to tell a divine atmosphere irreplaceably with a secular language. It seems like that opposites in Paradise Lost like Heaven and Hell or good and evil represents light and darkness, so it shows us that John Milton perfectly referred two sides. It is a success to write about subjects which everybody has different ideas. As long as I understand John Milton did not care about critics and that he kept on writing although he was blind allows us to know these great works.

When this poetry lectured in the lesson, I was absent, so I have difficulty to talk about that more. I can say these based on researchs on the internet I have done.