Edward Said’s concept of Orientalism manifests itself greatly in ‘Tarzan of the Apes’ displaying

Jane also loses her footing, but she is pulled back by a rope. After coming to a resting point, the expedition party is bewildered by an ape call they hear in the distance that is distinctly human-like. They soon meet the source of the sound when Tarzan uses his jungle call to save them from an attack by threatening hippopotami. Tarzan, who understands no language, then carries the screaming Jane to his treetop home, where she gradually loses her fear of him and the apes who live in the trees. Later, while Tarzan has left Jane to search for food, Harry and James rescue her, but not before Harry shoots an ape that he believes is a threat to Jane. Tarzan witnesses the killing and follows the expedition to take revenge on them. After drowning one of James's African guides, Tarzan recaptures Jane and then, with the help of an elephant, engages an attacking lion in a fight. The elephant carries the defeated and unconscious Tarzan to safety and then calls Tarzan's apes to summon

“The Jungle”, written by Upton Sinclair, Jr is a novel based on the hardships of immigrants in the early twentieth century. The author focuses in on a family that immigrated all the way from Lithuania to Chicago Illinois. They came to the states in hope for an abundance of opportunities, and a promising future but soon came to realize that their images of the American dream were anything but true.

Most of our History has been consistently recorded by the winners (whites) and that those who succeed and hold the most power can choose to recognize what they wish and cold-shoulder the minor and undesirable technicalities. With the ideology of white privilege, white men created the domination of white privilege centuries ago particularly controlled by whites. White privileged men established the approach of domination from their position and power of their skin tone, granting them the authority in society. Although a great number of white Americans do not tediously rely on these interest; they have been taking advantage of this privileges for numerous centuries. But those who are not white have been declined in countless cases, whether from achieving a distinct job, to simply gaining comparable treatment as those who are not colored individuals. In the article, The Persistent Problem of Colorism: Skin Tone, Status, and Inequality by Hunter, She states “ Skin color continues to shape our lives in powerful ways... People of color with dark skin tones continue to pay a price for their color, and light skinned continue to benefit. (249) Individuals with light skin receive various privileges, depending on what it might be. For instance, those who are

Throughout the centuries the “White” people have been known to think of themselves as being superior because of their color. If we look back at the time when the White Europeans came to this country they saw no reason to apply rules of honor to people they considered savages because they looked and acted different. Some might call this kind of thinking Social Darwinism where the “White” race is superior and destined to rule over all others. Clearly, the Native Americans were discriminated because of their color, which resulted in economic deprivation. However, now they play a huge role in our communities.

It is not easy, and it is unpleasant, to adduce statistics evidencing the cultural superiority of White over Negro: but it is a fact that obtrudes, one that cannot be hidden by ever-so-busy egalitarians and anthropologists.”(4)

The Jungle tells the story of one Lithuanian family's journey to America to seek a better life. When the Rudkus family first arrive, they are naively hopeful about their prospects in America and have dreams of owning a home, marrying, and having children. Once they arrive, their dreams are not easy or even possible to achieve. Ona and the children must go to work, family members die as a result of brutal working conditions, and the family is cheated into signing a lease on a home, which they eventually lose. The optimism of the Rudkus family is contrasted with the hardships in their lives, and their dreams are replaced by a struggle for survival. Through their experience, Sinclair shows how immigrants are used as mere tools for capitalist

     Many immigrants are moving to the United States in the early 1900’s with the hopes of living the “American Dream.” However, that glittering American lifestyle is merely a distant ideal for the immigrants living in Packingtown, the Lithuanian meatpacking district of Chicago. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle portrays life through the eyes of a poor workingman struggling to survive in this cruel environment, where the desire for profit among the capitalist meatpacking bosses and the criminals makes the lives of the working class a nearly unendurable struggle for survival.

Whether intentional or not, white privilege often affords white people opportunities that are not made available to those of other races. This is especially true of educational and economic opportunity. One cannot underestimate the legacy of racial oppression in the United States as it contributes to this idea of white privilege. Historically, even after the abolition of slavery, social

The native African people and the African setting are both metaphors for darkness to enable Conrad to reveal the evil in all of humanity. Kurtz’s book stated that “we whites... ‘must necessarily appear to them [savages] in the nature of supernatural beings’” emphasizing the European viewpoint before journeying into Africa (65). Marlow also believed that these natives were savages until he too went into Africa, but upon all the chaos and uncleanliness of Africa, the Accountant maintained “an unexpected elegance” (21). The Accountant preserves his appearance among the untidiness because he clings to his ideals of civility and organization. However, the natives are mistreated and one even “had tied a bit of white worsted round his neck” (20).

lives in (the 1920s and 1930s), white is the superior race. Other races were not equated to white

There is an abundance of literature in which characters become caught between colliding cultures. Often, these characters experience a period of growth from their exposure to a culture that’s dissimilar to their own. Such is the case with Marlow, Joseph Conrad’s infamous protagonist from ‘Heart of Darkness’. Marlow sets off to Africa on an ivory conquest and promptly found himself sailing into the heart of the Congo River. Along the way he is faced with disgruntled natives, cannibals, and the ominous and foreboding landscape. Marlow’s response to these tribulations is an introspective one, in which he calls into question his identity. This transcending of his former self renders the work as a whole a

Achebe argues that the racist observed in the Heart of Darkness is expressed due to the western psychology or as Achebe states “desire,” this being to show Africa as an antithesis to Europe. He first states Conrad as “one of the great stylists of modern fiction.” [pg.1] He praises Conrad’s talents in writing but believes Conrad’s obvious racism has not been addressed. He later describes in more detail that

Adventure novels are highly controlled and contained narrative form, while also containing writing of excess and exaggeration. This is evident in Burroughs’ language and writing style. Tarzan is written to be straightforwardly linear and literal with no room for interpretations. It’s wordy and repetitious, which could be due to the fact that pulp fiction writers were paid by the length of their stories, but the short sentence lengths used to describe action is a key element of identifying a text for the adventure genre (Bartlett, 2017; Easthope, 1991; Cawelti, 1976)). This literal telling of action can be shown through the telling of Tarzan’s battle with Bolgani, the huge gorilla:

In the Disney film Tarzan, the main protagonist, Tarzan is the prime example of a protagonist. He is a kind and caring character who is willing to put his life on the line for friends and family. Tarzan plays the archetypal feral child who is adopted and raised by a gorilla clan, through the support of his gorilla-mom, Kala. Over the course of the film, he grows into an able-bodied adult and is able to prove himself to the silverback clan leader, Kerchak. Tarzan faces the main antagonist, Clayton, after he appears in the form as a guide escorting a two-man team of gorilla researchers; Professor Porter and his daughter, Jane.

In David Henry Hwang’s play, M. Butterfly manifests three keywords that have a profound meaning: Race, Gender, and Orientalism.