Civilization In The Legacy Of Conquest, And Bederman's

Civilization is a term defined by perspective, complex, with multiple sides to decipher in order to perceive a true definition. One definition of civilization is a “culture, society, etc., of a specific place, time, or group” (Dictionary.com). However, what is the true definition of civilization? In the Burrough’s Tarzan, Limerick’s The Legacy of Conquest, Hoganson’s Private Lives/ Public Moments, and Bederman’s Manliness & Civilization, civilization is a state that a group achieves when it has developed its own sense of ethics, structured itself based on its own beliefs, and is brave enough to defend those beliefs, and maintains this state. Nevertheless, these definitions are the same to an extent, despite their differences.

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In a sense, there are beliefs that each civilization adopts that defines what is regarded as significant in society. For example, America and Britain both considered manliness to be important, Britain regarding manliness as a state of intellect and chivalry, and America regarding manliness as psychical strength. To each of these civilizations, manliness at the time was a standard to live up to, an idea of male perfection that they feel must be reached in order to be exceptional. (Bederman 27). The first example is when Burroughs analyzes Tarzan’s dependence on his physical senses rather than his mental ones. He states that “since birth, Tarzan’s survival had depended hearing, taste, touch and sight rather than the organ of reason” (Burroughs 174) this version of manliness, dominance through physical strength over intellect, was the belief that America adopted for the definition of manliness during the late 1800s into the early 1900s. This belief, as it grew among the American public, along with the belief in imperialism, affected how the public saw what a stronger leader was in the American presidency, and what a weak leader was. the aggressive working-class standards of manliness that was spreading among middle class men during the 1800s portrayed president McKinley as lacking the proper manhood to be an effective president(Hogan 40). The second example is when

One definition of civilization is the “culture, society, etc., of a specific place, time, or group” (Dictionary.com). However, what is the true definition of civilization? In the Burrough’s Tarzan, Limerick’s The Legacy of Conquest, Hoganson’s Private Lives/ Public Moments, and Bederman’s Manliness & Civilization, civilization is a state that a group achieves when it has developed its own sense of ethics, structured itself based on its own beliefs, and is brave enough to defend those beliefs, and maintains this state. Nevertheless, these definitions are the same to an extent, as the similarities encompass each other. Regardless of the differences, a civilization is a state that has to be achieved by the main group rather than