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I thought the multiple Sabor references was confusing too. I interpreted it to be the generic word for "lion." I guess they didn't differentiate by individual names for these other animal types like they did for themselves within their tribe.
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A quick search and I found this Wikipedia explanation. It also discusses how it was originally meant to be tiger as mentioned earlier in the discussion.
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"Tarzan's First Love". Tarzan's courtship of the female ape Teeka ends in failure when her preference turns to their mutual friend, the male ape Taug. Tarzan wrestles with his humanness versus his ape-ness. The allusion to Helen of Troy enriches the story, making Tarzan and Taug's fight over Teeka take on symbolic proportions. Stan Galloway writes: "when Burroughs chooses to name Helen as an objective correlative for Teeka, he expects both literal and emotional connections to occur."[5] Tarzan's final claim of the story -- "Tarzan is a man. He will go alone."[6]—echoes the plight of Adam in the Garden of Eden. That's from the Wikipedia article about "Jungle Tales of Tarzan", the sixth book, a short story collection.
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He was confused about his true-birth mother and his biological makeup so I guess it makes sense that he courted a female ape. He learned concepts of love and hate from his relationships within the ape tribe and with other wild animals. I thought maybe he learned additional concepts of romance from the books that he read in the cabin.
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I'm not saying the hereditary thing is convincing (maybe about as convincing as how much he learned - without help - from the books in the cabin ), but once you accept it for one thing, using it to explain away a few other troublesome details barely makes you blink. |
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Going back to the racism issue--I didn't remember this before, but the indigenous tribe were cannibals; white boy Tarzan, though, had magically developed scruples against eating human flesh by virtue of his superior heredity. The learning from books in the cabin was hard to believe. I can accept the deciphering of patterns of letters as names for pictured items, but I don't know how you get from that to abstract concepts without help. |
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Another line emphasising Tarzan's superior breeding: "It was a stately and gallant little compliment performed with the grace and dignity of utter unconsciousness of self. It was the hall-mark of his aristocratic birth, the natural outcropping of many generations of fine breeding, an hereditary instinct of graciousness which a lifetime of uncouth and savage training and environment could not eradicate." The book places much emphasis of the importance of his noble birth - so not racism as such, or so it seems to me, just: everyone else is crap except those of noble birth. Although, as I noted earlier, there are a few places where individual difference is allowed to creep in as a force separate to breeding. |
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I forgot about Black Michael as being another specific, named non-white character; he's kind of a mixed bag, as he is honorable enough to protect John and Alice, but doesn't arrange for their rescue. I'm backtracking on my earlier assertion about the racism not seeming too problematic for the times. |
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A repeated theme in these stories is Tarzan, the supposed savage, revealing the ruthlessness and heartless cruelty of 'civilization'. |
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We just don't know what happened with Black Michael. All we can do is make assumptions.
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Okay, there's the mutineer who shoots another mutineer in the back--Tarzan sees that, I think--but are there other examples that could be called really ruthless and heartless--worse than the savagery of the jungle, which is pretty darn savage! |
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In later books, Tarzan often isn't the protagonist. There's frequently a decent bloke who finds himself in bad company, and (of course) a damsel in distress. Tarzan serves as deus ex machina, swooping in like an avenging angel to ensure that all get their due. |
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