Chapter 10
Crusoe surveys his domain: "It would have made a Stoic smile to have seen me and my little family sit down to dinner... I was king and lord of all this country indefeasibly."
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From Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Crusoe's repeated declarations of sovereignty over the island, especially as he gains subjects, dramatize the novel's themes of property, labor, and colonial possession.
Chapter 15
With Friday, his father, and the Spaniard as subjects: "My island was now peopled... How like a king I looked... my people were perfectly subjected."
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