ENG250Y1 Lecture : Pocahontas and Yuichi Tale
Document Summary
Culture: how people interpret and what they believe. Rhetoric: art of communicating effectively, prose, influence. John smith captured by algonquin tribe, taken to chief powhaten; impressed him. Pocahontas"s willingness to save smith from barbarous act as told by americans. Romance emphasized in myth, shows identity defined by who you choose to married. Myth where chief gives smith chiefdom through pocahontas. Smith assumed pocahontas saving him was from recognition of him. Woman always represents new world, virgin (avatar, pocahontas) Culture and nature, no nature without culture. Powhaten and algonquin equally ethnocentric; felt superior to smith. Equally secure and confident in own culture. European writing; new in terms of old, unfamiliar into familiar. America has never ceased to be a dream. Fantasy, claim to new world, pastural ideal defines meaning of america. Seafoam, person crawls out primitiveness and foreign language. Whites keep going and coming back, live on earth after getting it from natives. Dream to rule perfect and innocent land.
