Robinson Crusoe

Résumé du document

Fiches de BAC 1L - Anglais Langue Vivante Approfondie
- Places and forms of power
- Idea of progress
- Spaces and exchanges

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[...] The virgin land Indeed, upon reading this text, we can perceive a link between the motive of insularity and the themes of power and authority. The island motif allows a downscaling that facilitates the analysis of power relations while being this epiphanic space, revealing the truth of each, from within. Robinson seems to be looking for a royal insularity. He gives a name to the island. The qualifiers he gives him are always subordinate to his person: he speaks of his domain, his kingdom, his manor. [...]

[...] In this presentation, we determine whether Robinson Crusoe was representative of western ideology of progress. In the first part, we analyze the relation of Robinson towards work, in the second part, his conception of the economy. Working on the island In addition to work, other elements are valued by the novel. Thus colonization is presented positively: operating a development of a territory, it makes the colon a man of progress. One morning Robinson met the parrot. What he had initially regarded as a simple playmate proved to be of great help. [...]

[...] After a few years, production stabilized again. Robinson realized that by studying his past experiences and conducting new experiments, he could again improve the efficiency of his work. But such a study would take time that he could not use to produce wheat. This gave him a second concern: how much of his time would he devote to increasing his know-how? And how much could he devote to producing? Technical progress results from a new arbitration between production time and research time (in the same way that it was necessary to choose between consumption and investment). [...]

[...] His conquest By presenting himself as king and governor of the island and using the entire lexical field of kingship, Robinson creates an absolutist rhetoric that allows him to create a political fiction in the heart of which he plays the role of the supreme leader. Robinson does not own the castle anymore but he owns Friday, which allows him to order it. Robinson considers that his absolute power is infinite. However, the absolutist rhetoric that gradually invades Robinson's story contains a subtle mixture of irony and sadness from a man who thinks of his isolation and who is satisfied with surviving on a desert island, more that he does not represent himself as a warrior king. [...]

[...] And Robinson could improve the efficiency of his work. Production began to grow and nothing seemed to stop it. The parrot symbolizes technical progress. Wheat production returns to uninterrupted growth thanks to the knowledge that the parrot brings (improvement of the productivity of its work). Solow's model examines Robinson's situation. In the presence of a factor that regularly improves the efficiency of the production process (technical progress), it is possible to have unlimited growth. This growth can be described as exogenous. [...]