Have you ever read a Tarzan comic?

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1. Was the fictional character Tarzan a hero or a villain?

2. What kind of clothing did Tarzan often wear?

3. Where did the writer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, set the Tarzan novels?

4. What serious theories are reflected in this new Tarzan exhibition?

Tarzan Arrives In Paris 泰山抵達(dá)巴黎

He had the instincts of an animal and the intellect of a man and now Tarzan, the world's first adult jungle hero, has swung into his own exhibition at a Paris museum.

The loinclothed, muscled ape man is celebrated amid all the Western stereotypical views of Africa of the early twentieth century.

His creator, the American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, had never visited Africa, and unwittingly placed Tarzan in a jungle which was populated by tigers and which stretched from the Belgian Congo to Rhodesia.

The exhibition also traces the impact of Darwinism and evolutionary theory in the Tarzan story.

But for anyone looking for lighter relief, there's also an opportunity to practise your Tarzan jungle yell.

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Answers

1. Was the fictional character Tarzan a hero or a villain?

Tarzan was a goodie, he was a heroic character.

2. What kind of clothing did Tarzan often wear?

Tarzan wore a loincloth.

3. Where did the writer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, set the Tarzan novels?

The Tarzan novels are mostly set in a jungle stretching from the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

4. What serious theories are reflected in this new Tarzan exhibition?

The exhibition traces the impact of Darwinism and evolutionary theory.