Answer:
(i) The novel originated
in Europe at a time when it was colonizing the rest of the world.
(ii) The
early novel contributed to colonialism by making the readers feel they were
part of a superior community of fellow colonialists.
(iii)
The hero of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is an adventurer and slave trader.
His ship wrecked on an island; Crusoe treats coloured people not as human
beings equal to him but as inferior creatures. He rescues a 'native' and makes
him his slave and calls him 'Friday'.
(iv)
Crusoe's behaviour was not seen as unacceptable as most of the writers of that
time saw colonialism as natural.
(v)
Colonised people were seen as primitive and barbaric less than human, and
colonial rule was considered necessary to civilize them, to make them fully
human.
It was
later in the 20th century that some novelists depicted the darker side of
colonial occupation.
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