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Fashioning Friday.(Robinson Crusoe)(Critical essay)
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Queen's Quarterly
- Article date:
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March 22, 2008
- Author:
- Cohen, Derek
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After fifteen years of the purest human solitude, Robinson Crusoe, walking one day to his boat, comes upon a footprint on the shore. The moment is electric. His first reaction of incomprehension soon gives way to sheer terror, and he retreats in alarm and haste to the home he calls his "Castle." The footprint does not belong, as is sometimes thought, to Friday, but to an unknown person who has been on the island and who has left no other trace of his visit. It stirs in the islander a host of uneasy and contradictory reflections, bringing apprehension and uncertainty into his orderly life.
CRUSOE'S peace has been permanently disturbed. He lives for the next two years in a ...