『로빈슨 크루소』와 마귀의 딜레마 = Dilemmas of the Devil in Daniel Defoe`s Robinson Crusoe

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In Robinson Crusoe, the eponymous hero mentions the devil several times, but the discovery of a footprint on the shore as well as his propagation of the religion to Friday forces him to consider seriously the nature of devil. He does not dare to deny the existence of apparitions, nor does he hold that the evil spirit directly intervenes in the life of human beings. Yet he is less concerned to explore the religious significance of the evil spirit; instead, his aim is to exploit the notion of the devil. While his statistical analysis of the devil hypothesis in the episode on the foot print helps him manage anxiety and fear, his assumption that the devil corrupted natives in America allows him to confirm the religious authority of the Bible and his religious belief in the divine will. Except for the episode of a grotto in which, Crusoe believes briefly, the devil lives, he does not have any occasion to think over the evil spirit until the end of the novel. More precisely, he does not feel the need to raise the question on the nature of evil spirits because the devil in the novel serves merely to be a psychological and rhetorical device for his survival on the island.

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