The myth of the noble/good savage
Noble savage, in literature, an idealized concept of uncivilized man, who symbolizes the innate goodness of one not exposed to the corrupting influences of civilization.
The glorification of the noble savage is a dominant theme in the romantics writings of the 18th and 19th centuries.
The concept of the noble savage, however, can be traced to ancient Greece, where Homer, Pliny, and Xenophon idealized the Arcadians and other primitive groups, both real and imagined. Later Roman writers such as Horace, Virgil, and Ovid gave comparable treatment to the Scythians.
First landing of Columbus,
print of Theodore De Bry
Harvest in a rice field, By Theodore De Bry, 1585
THE MYTH THROUGH A FEW STORIES
L'enfant sauvage, François Truffaut : "The wild child" is a 1970 French film by François Truffaut . It tells the story of a child who spends the first eleven or twelve years of his life with little or no human contact. It is based on the true events regarding the child Victor of Aveyron.
Living like a wild animal and unable to speak or understand language, the child has apparently grown up in solitude in the forest since an early age. He is brought to Paris and initially placed in a school for "deaf-mutes"
Itard takes custody of the boy, whom he eventually names Victor, and removes him to his house on the outskirts of Paris. There, under the patient tutelage of the doctor and his housekeeper. Victor gradually becomes socialized and acquires the rudiments of language.
The jungle book, Rudyard Kipling : The jungle book is, in fact, a collection of
stories. Either way, the first eight are part of the same story that begins when a young marriage loses their baby in the forests of India.
A reference is inevitable:considering the author's intention to invite us to reflect on the jungle-village duality, human nature-society, embodied by Mowgli, who anxiously searchs his identity between these two different worlds.
The glorification of the noble savage is a dominant theme in the romantics writings of the 18th and 19th centuries.
The concept of the noble savage, however, can be traced to ancient Greece, where Homer, Pliny, and Xenophon idealized the Arcadians and other primitive groups, both real and imagined. Later Roman writers such as Horace, Virgil, and Ovid gave comparable treatment to the Scythians.
First landing of Columbus,
print of Theodore De Bry
Harvest in a rice field, By Theodore De Bry, 1585
THE MYTH THROUGH A FEW STORIES
L'enfant sauvage, François Truffaut : "The wild child" is a 1970 French film by François Truffaut . It tells the story of a child who spends the first eleven or twelve years of his life with little or no human contact. It is based on the true events regarding the child Victor of Aveyron.
Living like a wild animal and unable to speak or understand language, the child has apparently grown up in solitude in the forest since an early age. He is brought to Paris and initially placed in a school for "deaf-mutes"
Itard takes custody of the boy, whom he eventually names Victor, and removes him to his house on the outskirts of Paris. There, under the patient tutelage of the doctor and his housekeeper. Victor gradually becomes socialized and acquires the rudiments of language.
The jungle book, Rudyard Kipling : The jungle book is, in fact, a collection of
stories. Either way, the first eight are part of the same story that begins when a young marriage loses their baby in the forests of India.
A reference is inevitable:considering the author's intention to invite us to reflect on the jungle-village duality, human nature-society, embodied by Mowgli, who anxiously searchs his identity between these two different worlds.
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ReplyDeleteBLOG POST 1: The MYTH of the NOBLE/GOOD SAVAGE
--> CONTENT (Questions 1 & 3): 6,5 /10
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Total: 15/20 Well designed (except for the ‘pages’ which you must place in a different position, NOT the vertical one on the right) but your answer to the first question is not really adequate. That said, you dealt with the third one in a very original way.