Answer:
(i) The hero of the novel
is an adventurer and slave trader.
(ii)
Shipwrecked on an island, Crusoe treats coloured people not as human beings
equal to him, but as inferior creatures.
(iii)
He rescues a 'native' and makes him his slave. He does not ask for his name but
arrogantly gives him the name Friday.
(iv) But at
times Crusoe's behaviour was not seen as unacceptable or odd, for most writers
of the time saw colonialism as natural. Colonized people were seen as primitive
and barbaric less than human; and colonial rule was considered necessary to civilize
them, to make them fully human.
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