Question

Discuss the significance of landscape in the last of the mohicans

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

As a contrast between its inhabitants, nature displays what Cooper sees as inherent contradictions. On the one hand, it stands for the waning days of Native American control over America, as the land is said to belong to them. This control, however, is exercised through cooperation and respect rather than dominance. On the other hand, nature stands for the spirit of freedom that animates the frontiersmen, who ultimately serve as the agents of white people’s expansion into what was once natural.

In Chapter 1, about “the toils and dangers of the wilderness” he says that the colonists and Europeans

expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage…. But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practised native warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to …uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe.

Answer 2

Explanation:

• In the last of Mohicans, the nature plays, the significant role in the message of freedom and loss.
• The picturing the landscape enables as the key for freedom. The contradiction enables the rule change from India and northern America.
• It is mentioned that the nature is always superior to the civilization. On one hand the native Americans holds that it is their land, symbolizing the rule and ownership and the domination over the down traded people of their nation.
• On the other hand it symbols out the coin of freedom.This even instills the confidence in the people that every people has equal right in their land.