The Last Of The Mohicans Nature Essay

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The movie The Last of the Mohicans directed by Michael Mann shows the Romantic Period’s conception of Nature. The film is heavily based upon Nature and expresses Nature as a central character in the film. The American Romantic Period’s definition of nature is sublime, using inspiration in myth, legend, and folklore, finding beauty and truth in exotic locates, and reflecting on nature’s beauty as a path to spiritual and moral development (Elements of Literature). The Mohicans and the Europeans take different prospective in their view of nature. The Europeans do not see the beauty in Nature and has a corrupt civilization, whereas the Mohicans live as frontiersmen and admires Nature. This movie shows how The Mohicans accolades Nature as a supernatural …show more content…

Chingachgook, Uncus, and Natty find a footprint near the stream on a rock mose to give them a clue that someone was near. It leads them to their first encounterment to Cora, Alice, and Duncan. Without the hint that Nature gave them, the British would be in greater trouble than they already were in. Cora, Alice, and Duncan would not have survived as long as they did with the Mohicans by their side. Later when they were chased by the Hurons, they escaped to a nearby cave in a waterfall. They hide in there for the meantime, although that did not last very long as an escape. Natty jumps off the cliff into the waterfall, knowing that it was his best chance of surviving and to save Cora. He uses the flow of Nature to help in survive. In the closing scene Alice is captured by Magua. She does not want to be in the hands of the Hurons and thinks she will be in better hands with Nature than to be forced to be someone she is not. Nature cannot completely be an escape from reality, but it is a better place than somewhere else because it keeps a person feel at ease. Seeing the courage of Uncus trying save her, she looks at Magua with wide eyes filled with fear, looks down the cliff, and jumps off courageously into the freedom of serene with

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