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The Red Martians have created the dominant culture on Barsoom. Carter's unusual appearance and un-Barsoomian strength and agility make him a kind of mythic figure, capable of achievements that no Barsoomian could manage.
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John Carter himself is white-skinned, so that Barsoomians sometimes identify him with their own surviving White race, known as the Holy Therns for example, Carter successfully impersonates a Thern named Sator Throg in The Gods of Mars. Although John Carter is able to befriend the Green Martian Tars Tarkas, who shows noble qualities, Tarkas is called an exception to the rule, and remains a noble savage. White, Yellow, Black, Red, and Green races appear in various novels of the series, each with ethnic qualities that often seem to define their individual representatives. Race is a constant theme in the Barsoom novels, as Barsoom is distinctly divided along racial lines. Similar ideas may be reflected in the fate of the ancient white race of Mars, which is mentioned in A Princess of Mars and reintroduced in a later Martian novel, Llana of Gathol they are described as having become weak and degenerate through their dependence on the trappings and comforts of civilization. As the nation become more urbanized, the 19th-century frontier was romanticized as a lost world of freedom and noble savagery.
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Cavalry Major who tries to convince John Carter to fight American Indians.
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In the Disney movie John Carter, Bryan Cranston portrays a U.S. The latter are a barbaric, nomadic, tribal culture with many parallels to American Indians.Ī nostalgic desire to return to the frontier became a common theme in the United States during the early twentieth century. When he arrives there, he discovers a savage, frontier world with scarce resources, where strength is respected, and where the civilized Red Martians maintain their racial vigor by repelling the constant attacks of the Green Martians. Indeed, John Carter is an adventuring frontiersman who is cornered by Apache warriors in the Arizona desert before his transition to Mars. Barsoom resembles a kind of Martian Wild West. During this time he gained a great respect for American Indians and their warriors, such as Geronimo. Burroughs worked as a soldier at Fort Grant, Arizona, where he patrolled the desert to protect white settlers. Home A Princess of Mars Wikipedia: ThemesĮdgar Rice Burroughs Themes The American frontierĪ Princess of Mars has many similarities to Westerns, including a desert setting, a heroine taken captive, and a showdown with the antagonist.