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Tarzan Of The Apes Compare Contrast Essay

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From lavish to savage is the underlying scheme in Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan of The Apes and his short story The Land That Time Forgot. These two works were widely read in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ time period, especially during World War I as he describes the racism during this time period. He particularly describes how the British were set aside and betrayed as the bad, but unknowingly the good. In these two works he tries to explain throughout his novels the level of racism between the Germans and the British. Racism is demonstrated in Tarzan of the Apes as civilized verses savage (being raised by wild animals). As this relates to his novels as they were similar in many ways, describing and characterizing through his creative form and style of writing. …show more content…

Tyler and Lord Greystone. Burroughs creates the two characters similar by both of them being British and coming from a lavish type lifestyle. Both of them were separated from most of their peers and held hostage for quite some time by the Germans or, as in Tarzan of the Apes “Terrorist,” in which in that particular story were supposed to represent the Germans. Both characters Greystone and Bowen were captured and placed under the control of the Germans, acting as if they were slaves. This characterization is demonstrated in the time period of both novels which were written in 1912 before the start of World War 1. Even though Burroughs’ was American, he still showed his hatred of German racism in these novels as if he felt offended by their terms and views against the Americans and British that were being pursued by the Germans at this time

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