Эссе: Power and Hierarchy in Robinson Crusoe

The narrative structure of Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe is based on a synthesis of various pre-existing genres: biography, memoir, diary, chronicle, adventure novel, picaresque-and has a self-narrative form. The memoir dominant is more pronounced in the insular part of the narrative, while elements of autobiography prevail in the unfinished part. Applying various compositional techniques, which include: memoirs, diary, inventories and registers, prayers, dreams, performing the role of the story in the story, adventurousness, Dialogic, elements of retrospection, repetitions, dynamic descriptions, the use of various vicissitudes as structural components of the plot, etc. - Defoe created a talented imitation of a believable life story written by an eyewitness. Nevertheless, the novel is far from this kind of biography, having a certain 'aesthetic premeditation' of the text both stylistically and structurally, and, in addition, having many levels of reading: from the external series of events to their allegorical interpretations, partly undertaken by the hero himself, and partly-hidden in various kinds of symbols. The reason for the popularity and entertaining novel is not only unusual used Defoe's plot and disarming simplicity of the language, but semantically inner emotional richness of the text, which are often researchers, accusing Defoe of dryness and of the primitive language, as well as the exceptional, but natural and not deliberate the drama of conflict. The novel owes its popularity to the charm of the main image-Robinson, the positive task of it, which pays for any of his actions. Robinson's positive purpose lies in the novel's very positive purpose as a kind of utopia about pure entrepreneurial labor. In his novel, Defoe combined elements of opposite, even incompatible in terms of composition and stylistic features of narratives: fairy tales and Chronicles-creating thus, and in this way the epic of labor. It is this content aspect, the ease of its apparent implementation that fascinates readers.