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ARNOLD, Wayne E.
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Omoo is a disjointed narrative that jumps from one scene to another in an attempt to expand on various aspects of the cu
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rrent Tahitian culture. In Omoo, Melville uses an unnamed narrator whose adventures are not as detailed as Tommo’s are in Typee; the narrator digresses from a straightforward narrative in order to devote significant time to critiquing the supposed advancements brought about by the missionaries and colonizers. Looking at the current religious and societal position of the Tahitians, the narrator asserts that the natives are in worse condition then when they were considered “savages.” The listlessness the narrator sees in the Tahitians drives him to make his strongest argument against the work of the missionaries. Since the efforts to civilize the natives through industry have hopelessly failed, the narrator comes to the conclusion that if true Christian faith existed in them, advancements in their culture should have succeeded.
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ARNOLD, Wayne E.
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In both Typee and Omoo (1847), Melville’s narrators provide long, detailed descriptions concerning the missionaries’ eff
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orts. The narrator in each text portrays the work of the missionaries as being detrimental to the lives of the natives and Typee and Omoo work together to show the disparity in the living situations that have been created for the natives. One of the primary focuses of this article will be to contrast the Typee’s connection with nature against the manner by which the Tahitian’s have been indoctrinated into the “white civilization”, thereby removing them from the communion with nature still experienced by the Typee. This contrast of environments appears much clearer when the books are presented together; ultimately, they show how the Typee natives coexist with their environment without requiring external factors while the “civilized” natives are losing their grasp on the natural world within which they once existed.
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