Last of the Mohicans – Video Guide

What you are going to see is the pushing between the realities of the Enlightenment and the hanging on to old world ideals; the individualism of Daniel Day-Lewis and his natural state being the antagonist for the divine rights aristocracy of Duncan.  Caught in between worlds is Madeline Stowe and her having to come to grips with the reality of herself of the old and the new discovery she has made.

The Enlightenment Age is the age of discovery and explanation of truth and reality, reconciling church dogma with new scientific discovery.  Part of the way these truths and realities were explained was with the application of a new thought process called the natural state.  In the movie see how DD-L’s character personifies that natural state talked about by John Locke.

What Enlightenment characteristics are personified in DD-L’s character (personification of the new America)?

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The Enlightenment Age is the age of desire for discovery; how does Cora personify that?

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The New World characterizes the Enlightenment through what.  Site examples of the following.

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The people in the New World, how did they get there?  

Why did they come to the New World and leave the old behind? 

Why are they living out in such defenseless places?

What are examples of how America had become separate from the Crown?  “For King and Country that is why you should be joining in this fight.”  “You decide what you want to do with your own scalp, and be telling us what we ought to be doing with ours.”