James Coopers's The Last of the Mohicans shows the process of colonization by keeping the conflict between civilization and so called savagism; the most conflciting clash between the French and English for colonial control of the land. It also gives the message that to get success one has to play the game of power, politics and violence.
    The narrative has three different levels; literal, mythical and symbolic or historical while analyzing the novel from the process of colonization. All these different levels are brought together in the fall of Fort William Henry. It is a story of journey undrtaken by the British troops around 1500 people from Fort Edward to Ford William Henry and the mission of the journey is the safe-hand-over of the two daughters, Cores and Alice to Munro. But when the journey goes on it takes the different layers of interpretations. Their journey is blocked by Mgua; the self proclamed chief of Huron tribe. So at the literal level the novel is about the description of journey with the series of captures and resource. There is the description of land, wilderness, harmony, agrarianism and promising empire, equally affected by disease, draught, famine and blood shedding.
    In the same way in the myithical level of the story it is about fall of new world, earthly paradise. The fall is because of the sin committed by the Europeans and alike. At the historical level it is about the mass massacre at Fort William Henry in the year 1757. The large number of people native white Americans, and the Europeans were killed inhumanly. It resembles the loosing battle of colonial motif of colonizers.
     The novel is very rich in its symbolic level. The narratives ends with three deaths and one marriage. Death of Uncas and Magua represents the passing away of the Red Indians due to the technological motif of colonizers. The death of Core represents the death of Christian virtue, goodness, morality, sympathy and forgiveness due to the cause of brutal colonial activities of colonizers. The after all price that America has to pay to the emergence from old age to the youth. And the marriage between Alice and Hayward resembles the new generation in American society based on mediocrity.
    The very indirect tribal clash , destruction, crime and violation etc. all are due to the colonial mentality of colonizers in the entire novel.

      On account of plenty of causes many European left the continent and embarked on a mission to explore and circumnavigate America. As they reached America, they found it a promised land. But they also found the New England as a brutally wild and terribly uncivilized land. They, moreover, found the native tribes most odious. So they treated the tribal people as 'Other'. They, therefore decided to shoulder what the famous colonial writer Kippling called the white man's Burden. To implement their civilizing mission they started taming the land, cultivating the land and pushing the tribal community to the territory of virtual extinction. But all those Europeans were not from the same European country. The most dominant of them were the French and the English. Whatever land the English cleared and subjugated was ruled by them and whatever piece of territory the French brought to the domination of cultivation it was ruled by the French. Thus there arose an intense bloody political rivalry between the French and the English. The rivalry between them was about how much territory one has to conrol. In this political battle motivated from the colonial purpose, several Indian tribes had divided their support. Even amidst the ethnic tribe bloody massacre happened. The bloody massacre consequent upon the failure of armistice at the fort of William Henry is an illuminating evidence to claim that Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans dramatizes the problem of colonialism. To assert their colonial selfishness those European created conflict within the tribes and weakened them and prevented them from becoming a united force.
      The second tactics the European colonizer performed is the tactic of cultural displacement and cultural contaminations. The French colonizer contaminated the tribal culture by tempting tribal youths toward the French culture of drinking. They secretly knew about the Delaware community be sending French doctor to cure them. They subdued the Delaware and Huron by encouraging them to speak French language.
      Thus there are numerous cases of colonially motivated interest of the frontier. Even the every entry of civilization on the frontier is simply a cloak. At the back of this civilizing mission lies the politics of dispossession and displacement.
      In this sense, different tactics, manner and all other activities throughout the novel are only the process of colonoal conduct. Whether it is tribal conflict or it is other kinds of different destruction all are only the process inside the overall target of controlling ruling over the innocent people by dominating them in every aspects. Whether we analyze the novel from literal level or mythical level or histotical aspects or symbolic aspects we can get the sense of colonization in every corner of the novel. So the novel is Cooper's historical consciousness based on the colonial mentality. 

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