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1、MyAppreciationoftheLastoftheMohicansAsoneof“TheLeather-stockingTales”,TheLastoftheMohicanscreatesanAmericanhero-mythbythenameofHawkeye.Inthisnovelheisportrayedasaperfectexampleofthewesternman,shapedbytheforestinwhichhelivesandbrokenawayfromthefalsityofcivilization.Heistheem
2、bodimentofbasichumanvirtueslikekindness,wisdom,braveryandrusticchivalry.HisIndiancompanion,theMohicanchiefChingachgook,isCooper’sidealofthenaturalman,whosenativeintelligence,loyaltyandbrotherlylovearenottaintedbycivilization.Besidesvividcharacterization,thisnovelisfullofblo
3、odandfight,setindescriptiveimagesofthebeautyofnaturereminiscentofSirWalterScott.Whatismore,Ithinkthatrepetition,oppositionsandcontrastsaboundinthenovel.Repetitionexistsmostobviouslyintheplotdeviceofthetrapandescapeofthecharacterswhileoppositionsshowthemselvesmainlyinthenume
4、rousfrontierclashes:FrenchagainstEnglish,IndiansagainstIndiansandagainstwhites,MaguaagainstHawkeye’sparty.Themostimportantandcontrollingoppositioninthenovelarebetweenevilandgood.Astocontrasts,themostappealingoneisthatbetweentheconditionofnatureandtheconditionofhumans.Inaddi
5、tion,afterreadingthisnovel,Ifindtwothemesfromit.3Thefirstoneis“interracialloveandfriendship”.TheLastoftheMohicansisaboutraceandthedifficultyofovercomingradicaldivides.Coopersuggeststhatinterracialminglingisbothdesirableanddangerous.Cooperlaudsthegenuineandlongtimefriendship
6、betweenHawkeye,awhiteman,andChingachgook,aMohicanIndian.HawkeyeandChingachgook’ssharedcommunicationwithnaturetranscendsrace,enablingthemtoteamupagainstHuronenemiesandtosavewhitemilitaryleaderslikeHeyward.Ontheotherhand,though,coopershowshisconvictionthatinterracialromancesa
7、redoomedandundesirable.TheinterracialloveofUncasandCoraendsintragedy,andtheforcedinterracialrelationshipbetweenCoraandMaguaisportrayedasunnatural.ThroughCora,coopersuggeststhatinterracialdesirecanbeinherited.Thesecondoneis“thechangingideaoffamily”.Cooperusesthefrontiersetti
8、ngtoexplorethechangingstatusofthefamilyunit.Cooperpositsthatthewildernessdemandsne
