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A five page paper which looks at the concepts of civilisation and savagery in Melville’s ‘Typee’, with particular reference to the way in which the main character reacts to both types of culture, and the association of the Typees’ society with the Biblical Garden of Eden.
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File: JL5_JLTypee.rtf
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of the most interesting aspects of Melvilles Typee is the way in which the main character, Tommo, vacillates between his desire for civilisation and his desire for savagery, and is
happy with neither. The student could point out that Melville is looking not only at the way that these terms are defined but also at the way in which human
beings react to finding themselves in different cultures, and the difficulties they have in acclimatising themselves to a new order, even if they feel that the new culture is what
they genuinely want.
Melville sees civilisation as exemplified by whites, but this is a civilisation which, right at the start of the novel, he rejects. The student could note the symbolism of
the way in which Tommo arrives amongst the Typees - his journey through the dark, narrow gorge is reminiscent of the birth process, and when he arrives in the Eden-esque
valley at the other side, he feels as if he has been reborn. The constraints and restrictions which he has experienced during his time in civilised society, and on the
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