When Jane Porter first appeared in Tarzan of the Apes (1912), she was the quintessential damsel in distress. A refined American woman stranded in the African jungle, she represented the civilization that Tarzan had never known. Their romance was built on the contrast between his raw, primal strength and her educated, moral grounding.
When Jane Porter first appeared in Tarzan of the Apes (1912), she was the quintessential damsel in distress. A refined American woman stranded in the African jungle, she represented the civilization that Tarzan had never known. Their romance was built on the contrast between his raw, primal strength and her educated, moral grounding.
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