ROBINSON AS THE PROTOTYPE OF THE ENGLISH COLONISER: Robinson Crusoe is the perfect example of a colonist, because during his life he was a merchant, planter and a slave owner. He also had all the caracteristics of an 18th century colonist, he had in him the whole Anglo-Saxon spirit: The manly independence,the unconcious cruelty, the persistence, the practical and efficient intelligence, the calculating taciturnity. Last but not least, since he got stranded on the island he started to dominate, exploit and civilize it, essentially transforming it into his own little empire, and he did all this because he felt culturally and morally superior.
