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Subaltern theory means a
marginalized group. It can use very different way like heathen ,social
discrimination, gender, culture etc this theory we can apply on’ Robinson Crouse’
also. Let’s see that how can we apply this theory on’ Robinson Crouse’.
In the
novel Crouse is the central character. But if we change the center and took the
central character as a Firday, so, it is a good situation for subaltern theory. Subaltern theory means a marginalized group. It
can use very different way like heathen ,social discrimination, gender, culture
etc. T
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Friday
is an African man ,he is black man and Crouse is white man. Here colour
is the symbol of their social status. Crouse is powerful man and other side
Friday is marginalized. In Island Crouse save the life of Friday and he live
with him. Friday cannot understand language of Crouse. In novel he has no much
dialogue, he is speechless person. But his silence say every things. Crouse try
to teach English Language to Friday, here we can see deep symbol. LANGUAGE is our IDENTITY,
if we accept other’s language it’s mean we are surrender in that person. When
Fridey and Crouse meet , Crouse behave like a friend but than slowly, slowly he
become master of Friday. It is indirectly symbol of English people and
colonized people. Friday is
nonchristian,here he is heathen. Crouse learnt him Christian’s rules,
how Christian live and every thing about Christian. Indirectly Crouse try to convert Friday into Christian.
In my point of view this is whole
situation like “colonized India”. Britisher’s comes India only for business but
than they colonized us. During this time
they force people to learnt their ENGLISH LANGUAGE, now a days even we can see
craze of English Language. Our language is our own identity but than even
people give importance to English Language more then our language. During those
time people like to be Christian. They proved their self to speak English
rather than their language.
This is not only
condition of India but all the colonized country’s condition. So we can see here that Crouse is
a symbol of colonizer and Friday is a symbol if colonized people.
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