The Last of the Mohicans, notes for the reader
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Julie
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- Themes:
- Natural versus legal rights to the land
- Order versus change
- Wilderness versus society
- Corruption of society versus innocence of nature
- Experience versus written history
- Democratic freedom around an intercultural friendship
- Set in the 1750s during the time of the French-Indian war
- Natty follows a different principle than the settlers coming now
- Natty is a true American Romantic hero:
- Loves the wilderness, avoids being in town
- Innocence/purity (not corrupted by society)
- Individual
- Intuitive (feeling over reason)
- Engaged in an adventure of self development, that takes place outside of social bounds
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