Edgar Rice Burroughs created the best-known Afric

Burroughs sets his novel in Africa, an Africa largely of his imagination. One effect of this is that his Africa is more a symbolic representation of nature and of his view of nature than it is of a real place. Burroughs in this setting can work out his view of the Romantic notion of nature and of the relationship between man and nature. The Romantic era took place a century before, and Burroughs was writing with romantic sensibilities in a more realistic literary age. His fiction harks back to an earlier time, which is in keeping with escapist fiction that creates unrealistic landscapes where Romantic ideas about nat

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and to the hilt into its breast (50). He teaches himself to read and write. He is superior to animal and human in every way. This becomes evident to the animals first: "Tarzan held a peculiar position in the tribe. They seemed to consider him one of them and yet in some way different" (58). The humans will also come to see Tarzan as both one of them and somehow different. This ambivalence is evident in D'Arnot as he speaks to himself when alone in the jungle: "What are you, Tarzan? . . . An ape or a man? "If you are an ape you will do as the apes would do--leave one of your kind to die in the jungle if it suited your whim to go elsewhere. "If you are a man, you will return to protect your kind. You will not run away from one of your own people, because one of them has run away from you" (220). D'Arnot's assessment of how the apes would behave is biased and incorrect, but the attitude toward Tarzan is clear--Tarzan is seen as standing between animals and humans and of being expected to make a choice. He makes that choice without really leaving his past behind, though. He accepts the trappings of civilization as taught to him by D'Arnot, but always he prefers the life of the jungle, as when D'Arnot te
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