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and they thought he were the God from the heaven. Here Defoe portrayed their foolishness pretty well and indicated that only the noise and the fire of the colonist?s gun could conquer one nation to another. Naturally, such foolish people needed to be civilized by the kind and just whites. 3. The Cruel Cannibals—the American Indians Another opposition of the civilization was the cruel cannibals. Friday lived in a savage tribe with the nature of eating man?s flesh. Such behavior is unacceptable in a civilized society, since it was the most inhuman and evil behavior in the world. Thus those westerners took the chance to construct “the other?s” images and found a good justification for their construction. In colonial literature, it always narrated that God abandoned those cannibals. Robinson Crusoe was the same, and as followed, “Who, as to me, were innocent and whose barbarous customs were their own disaster, being them a token indeed of God?s having left them, with the other nations of that part of that world, to such stupidity and inhuman courses… But that unless something offered that was more a call to me than yet I knew of, I would not meddle with them.”(Defoe, 187) They were impressed us that they were Idolaters and Barbarians, and had several bloody and Barbarous Rites in their Customs, such as sacrificing human bodies to their idols. When they held a maneating feast, they danced ugly around the fire. However, the fact about “cannibals” needed to be proved. The story of “cannibal” firstly appeared in Columbus?s journals and letters and it turned out to be created by him. According to the survey, he never met any cannibals. (Arnold, 3) Columbus was good at word invention, just the same as the invention of America Indians. (Motohashi, 8189) While the first reference of the tribe of cannibals was in Shakespeare?s last drama the Storm and the most impressed character was a savage called “Caliban”.(張德明 , 2021:113) Some scholars thought that the originality of cannibal was mostly associated with him. (彼得 .休姆 , 2021: 158) Although in the novel, we could find the narration that the westerners particular the Spaniards was notorious of killing those natives barbarously, though it was just used a few words to refer the fact: “by all which I understood he meant the Spaniards, whose cruelties in Americans had been spread over the whole countries and was remembered by all the nations from father to son.”(Defoe, 173) However, in documentary there was evident that the barbarous treatment of the Spaniards to the inhabitants was abhorrent. Ⅱ . Cultural Colonization: Bringing Civilization to the Savage—Friday Above colonial discourses in the fiction constructed the ugly and barbarous image of “the other” to us and especially the bloody custom of cannibals could not accept in any civilized society. Therefore, spreading “civilization” to “the other” was natural and inevitable in Robinson?s plan. Instructing the savage—Friday to a civilized man became his great task. From the novel, we had learned that Robinson appeared in front of the savage—Friday as a deliver. He saved Friday from the cruel and bloody killing with advanced European arms. The delivered poor man used his own way to express his exceeding gratitude: kneeling down every ten or twelve steps in token of acknowledgment for saving his life and at length he came close to Robinson, and then he kneeled down again, kissed the ground, and laid his head upon the ground, and, taking the white by the foot, set the foot upon his head。 nor indeed can I describe half the extravagances of his affection after this。它不僅生動地講述了小說主人公魯濱遜開拓荒島的詳細過程,也描繪了他馴服改造原始部族人 “星期五 ”的手段和策略。 said he, 39。 his nose small, not flat like the Negroes。s integrity, honesty and hospital, he learned a lot and set up for a trader. Later, the captain?s widow continued to support him as kind as the captain, even if she was in unfavorable conditions. The third kind captain delivered Robinson from the sea when he escaped out of slavery. He was not only kind to save but also generous delivered goods for him without taking anything from him, for he believed that, “?I have saved your life on no other terms than I would be glad to be saved myself, and it may one time or other be my lot to be taken up in the same condition。 colonial discourses。 then he took his arms and ankles, which were numbed and stiff with the binding, and chafed and rubbed them with his hands。 tall and wellshaped, and, as I reckon, about twentysix years of age. He had a very good countenance, not a fierce and surly aspect. But seemed to have something very manly in his face, and yet he had all the sweetness and softness of a European in his countenance too, especially when he smiled. His hair was long and black, not curled like wool。colony39。s liberty, but after being offered a medium, the captain had him because he would give the boy an obligation to set him free in ten years if he turned to be a Christian.”(Defoe, 26) It told that it was the civilized religious faith—Christianity that delivered Xury and his liberty. Here was another expression of the white?s mythology. Meanwhile, Xury was written to be willing to go to him, which reduced the devil practice of slavery system. As a matter of fact, at his times, he had no right to decide his fate and in colonial literature, “the other” was always described as voiceless. Hence, it justified for the slavery system. 2. Enslaving the Savage—Friday With the rising of Britain Empire, British people were confident in their race and culture. (陳 兵 , 2021: 71) They believed that they were superior to “the other”. They held the faith that God was on their side and called them to deliver the savages and civilize them. Consequently, enslaving the savage—Friday was one essential step in Robinson?s plan to realize the task. Furthermore, the former part of