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Originally Posted by gmw
Tarzan of the Apes
You can't really help but come away from it thinking that Tarzan only becomes the great and honourable hero we all know because of his lordly, white, English heritage.
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gmw, I've never read the book, but I got a copy of it for Christmas, and I'll plan to read it in the next couple of weeks.
I'm a little surprised about your comment, because I thought that everybody knew that. But my understanding was that the emphasis was not on his white skin but on his blue blood. I thought that the idea was that Tarzan was a noble, and therefore was better than us commonfolk, even if raised in the jungle by apes.
But I'll read it, and then find out if my assumption is correct.