• rtxn@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      As a kid, I saw Tarzan as “haha monke man go ooaooaooaoooaooo”.

      As an adult, I interpret its message as integration being contingent upon conformity and usefulness to society.

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        3 months ago

        He expressly did NOT conform to their vision of (English) humankind and instead brought them to his world in the jungle, at the end.

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          3 months ago

          He wasn’t accepted among the adult gorillas until he killed the leopard. Then he was only seen by the explorers as a scientific curiosity, and by the poachers as a means to find the gorillas.