The Last of the Mohicans Essay The book The Last of the Mohicans is nothing more than a piece of literature defining the difficulties of multiculturalism in its respective time period. The book, not to be analyzed too deeply, is a romanticized version of white American stereotypes. The Last of the Mohicans is a romantic novel because it is consistent with the four tenets of romanticism. First of all, a few of the characters in …
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…the woods shooting people perfectly from far away, in the dark! Nature is controlled, the wind blows at the "perfect time," the sun has "perfect timing," it rains at the exact moment that it should. Most movies are like that. Romantics would argue that the invented and imagined characters and symbols create allegories that heighten a reader's understanding of the human condition. Romantics believe that rules can be bent in order to teach a moral.