Tarzan
Tarzan, a Man Among Beasts
The Edgar Rice Burroughs novel Tarzan of the Apes was written in the year 1912 as a series in a magazine. The reviews were nowhere near as grand as the book?s two years later which labeled it an instant classic. The novel?s main themes touch on man?s survival and protection of the things that are closest to him as well as the identity of race and gender as symbols of power throughout the novel. And also of that man?s need to explore the wild frontier and that they are the most sophisticated thinkers, hunters, and species in the world. All of these themes are evident not only in the novel Tarzan of the Apes but also in the everyday lives of middle-class American men at the beginning of the twentieth century, as the nation was growing so were the ideologies of the supremacy of the white male.
The first theme in the novel Tarzan of the Apes that will be examined is the idea that the male must support the weak and to protect the people that cannot protect themselves. This is evident throughout the novel as Tarzan protects everyone he
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