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| In James Fenimore Cooper's fiction, 'women are of central social significance.＜br /＞[Cooper's] theme is society, and he defines women as the nexus of social interaction,'＜br /＞Nina Baym argues1. She claims that the author is not interested in women's personhood＜br /＞or individuality, but rather in their usefulness for society. According to Baym,＜br /＞matrimony is 'the chief 'statement' of the social language'.2 Therefore, if a woman is＜br /＞apt for marriage, she is socially utile. One of the main aspects of The Last of the＜br /＞Mohicans is the dichotomy between the half-sisters Cora and Alice Munro, to whom the＜br /＞concept of social usefulness can be applied. On the one hand, Fenimore Cooper presents＜br /＞Alice, who is fair, helpless and infant ile, as marriageable. On other hand, Cora, the dark,＜br /＞courageous and initiated sister, is considered unsuitable for wifehood. Instead of letting＜br /＞Cora be united in marriage with the Indian Uncas in the end of the novel, the author＜br /＞decides to kill both of the m. Many of his contemporaries have urged Cooper to change＜br /＞the unhappy ending. One critic, for instance, writes:＜br /＞Every event as we go along points to a favourable termination, when just at the＜br /＞winding up, the design seems to be capriciously reversed, and [Cora and Uncas]＜br /＞are most summarily and unnecessarily disposed of. The vessel, having braved all＜br /＞the dangers of her voyage, sinks as she is floating into smooth water.3＜br /＞1 Nina Baym, 'The Women of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales', American Quarterly 23＜br /＞(1971), p. 697.＜br /＞2 Ibid., p. 698.＜br /＞3 Unsigned review, The United States Literary Gazette, iv (May 1826), pp 87-94,＜br /＞reprinted in George Dekker and John P. McWilliams (eds.), Fenimore Cooper the＜br /＞Critical Heritage, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973, p. 100.画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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