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e knew that, Robinson once bred a parrot, what he taught the bird was to call him his real name: Robinson. But for Friday, Robinson purposed to tell the savage his name was Master. The few words here meant Robinson was superior to Friday and Friday was meant to his lasting servant. Thus, teaching Friday English was just an excuse to make the servant serve him. C. Mocking Friday’s God and Instructing the Real God to Him In order to divert Friday into a Christian, Robinson spent much time and efforts on Friday. Firstly, Robinson purposely instructed Friday’s faith was not real faith but a superstition and told him what real faith, the God and Devil was. Defoe justified that Robinson was pleased to open the savage’s eyes and of course successfully he was diverted into a Christian. Friday was also praised much more divine even than those westerners. Friday was followed reading Bible and praying regularly. Even he seemed to argue for Friday’s religion as a superstition was common, “by this I observed, that there is priest craft even amongst the most blinded, ignorant pagans in the world, and the policy of making secret religion, in order to preserve the veneration of the people the clergy, is not only to be found in the Roman but among the most brutish and barbarous savages.”(Defoe, 174) In fact, he just proved that the savage’s religion was superstition, while the God was the real might to be deserved to be trusted. During Robinson instructed Friday the God, there was an interaction between them. Friday looked like not the passive one to absorb the preach superstition, and he asked a surprising question even troubled the preacher. But at length, it was Friday solved the problem. It was dramatic that the savage’s earnest and persistence toward Christianity opened his eyes. By contrast, when he couldn’t answer Friday’s question, he excused that “though I was now an old man, yet I was but a young doctor, and ill enough qualified for casuist, or a solver of difficulties. And at first I could not tell what to say, so I pretended not to hear him, and asked him what he said.” (Defoe, 176) From here we would doubt whether he was an eligible instructor and he really believed in God. Karl Marx had ever sharply pointed out that we would not take much seriousness to Robinson’ s faith for he just got some entertainment from it and viewed those praying as creative activities. (刘意青，2005：177) Moreover, another critic had argued “Robinson indeed trusts in God, while he believes that mankind only was faithful to practical affairs, they would be delivered from God. Such practical affair was ‘Great Business’.”（翟文明，2006：85）We could conclude that Robinson was not a faithful Christian, whose religion was only served for him. However, with the help of his instruction, Friday turned out to be an earnest priest, even much more divine than any other westerners. Friday was perfectly made as a “civilized westerner”. Principally, those naked bad-mouthing words about the savages impressed us, we would be easily lured to trust that the westerners indeed were much more civilized than “the other”, and they really brought civilization to “the savages”. When we turn over the leaf of the history, the fact is on the opposite. The people in colonies were not savaged as the author depicted in the novel. India and Egypt had ever been known as the forerunner of civilization.（翟文明，2006：319-320）They had an old history. India’s religion spread to the west and drove the society