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A 5 page paper which examines Herman Melville’s novel Typee: A Romance of the South Sea as it relates to the superiority of the more savage human. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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brutal and less than human it would seem. But, in this story Melville presents these people as the opposite, as a culture of people who are far more civilized and
human than their Western counterparts. In many ways this novel, which came before his classic Moby Dick, set the stage for his interest and focus on the society and culture
of the Western world. The following paper examines how the savage Typee were far more noble and advanced, culturally, than the Western world that claimed to be far more civilized
and advanced. Melvilles Typee In understanding something about this particular story it is incredibly informative and intriguing to note that it
was based on actual experiences by Melville. One author notes that Melville, along with another man, jumped from a ship and found themselves stranded on an island where there were
reputed to be a very kindly tribe of people which they sought out (Proyect). Instead of finding this tribe, however, they ended up with that tribes rival the Typees "who
had a reputation for ferocity and cannibalism" (Proyect). He spent four weeks with this tribe and it inspired him to write this novel which "defies 19th century conventions and which
foreshadows many of the themes that would appear in subsequent works such as Moby Dick" (Proyect). It is a novel that clearly makes statements against colonialism and racism and a
novel that serves to represent "an inchoate search for an alternative to the inhuman economic system that had ruined his once patrician family as well as many other Americans of
all races" (Proyect). One author, in quoting another, claims that "Typee is Melvilles preface to his brief against civilization" (Ivison). They state that in this novel Melville is clearly
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