http://www.darwinendlessforms.org Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:42:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.darwinendlessforms.org/get-involved-online/book-club/tarzan-of-the-apes/comment-page-1/#comment-255 Gillian Beer Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:37:27 +0000 http://www.darwinendlessforms.org/?page_id=2240#comment-255 Tarzan is the son of two aristocrats and the book plays around with issues of class as well as race and inheritance. Tarzan, raised among apes, proves to be better educated in gentlemanly codes than his cousin who is his rival in the civilised world. At the end of the book Tarzan refuses to claim his 'gentlemanly'' inheritance, saying that his mother was an ape and so could tell him nothing about his family. The outcome is that he loses Jane to his cousin but keeps his integrity. The outcome also seems to imply that there's not much place for gentlemen in the struggle to survive and bear offspring. Tarzan is the son of two aristocrats and the book plays around with issues of class as well as race and inheritance. Tarzan, raised among apes, proves to be better educated in gentlemanly codes than his cousin who is his rival in the civilised world. At the end of the book Tarzan refuses to claim his ‘gentlemanly” inheritance, saying that his mother was an ape and so could tell him nothing about his family. The outcome is that he loses Jane to his cousin but keeps his integrity. The outcome also seems to imply that there’s not much place for gentlemen in the struggle to survive and bear offspring.

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