Tarzan arrives in Mexico City by jet plane, wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase, and while still in his suit crushes a Mexican foe in the Plaza de Toros with a giant Coca-Cola bottle. My favorite moment in a Tarzan film is in Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966), which features an arsenal of automatic rifles, large-caliber machine guns, hand grenades, a halftrack, a tank, and a fighting helicopter. During and after World War II, for instance, Tarzan battled Nazis as well as Latin Americans of dubious political allegiance. The isolationist story lines of the Tarzan films are a ruse, as the films played a large part in America's postwar cultural and economic global warfare. The complexities of Burroughs's Tarzan do not stop there, and the complexities of our Tarzan are compounded when he moves from book to film, starting in 1918, on his way to becoming, in all likelihood, the most well-known American fictional character of the 20th century. Tarzan of the Apes celebrates not his wildness, but its taming. This act preserves her honor and well-being, and in its restraint and self-sacrifice reveals his fully evolved, civilized soul. Prufrock's "Do I dare to eat a peach?" has as its cousin, or distant ancestor, Tarzan's puzzle after killing his first African, Do I dare to eat a man? Edgar Rice Burroughs's original story, published 96 years ago this October, ends on a Wisconsin dairy farm (who knew?) as Tarzan allows his cousin to marry Jane and to keep the Greystoke name.
As Tarzan grows and learns to read, he begins to question what it means to be human. Eliot's vision of the paralyzed, self-conscious psyche of the modern civilized man.īut not so fast. In his virile primitivism he became our answer to Prufrock, T.S. He emerged in 1912 as if called to battle against the New Woman, the New Negro, the new fascination with homosexuality, and all those new immigrants, and to provide a breath of fresh jungle air for a society industrializing and urbanizing at an astonishing rate. Kimmel - Theoretical piece analyzing the generational differences in the approach to the transition to adulthood.Cultural historians adore Tarzan.
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