The Jungle Books (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- First Published: 1894
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Type of Plot: Fables
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Genres: Fable, Short fiction, Bildungsroman, Adventure, Fantasy
- Subjects: Justice, Maturation or coming of age, Snakes, Tigers, Nature, Nineteenth century, Courage, Betrayal, Friendship, Violence, Loyalty, India or East Indian people, Jungles or rain forests, Adventure, Bears, Boys, Arctic, Animals, Wolves, Fables
- Locales: India
Places Discussed
*India. Because the locations given for Mowgli’s world are vague, except for the reference to India’s Waingunga River, the forest in which Mowgli lives is chiefly symbolic of a world in which the laws of the jungle prevail, much as legal systems prevail in civilization. Mowgli’s jungle is made up of several settings, the first being the wolf cave in which he is sheltered as an infant and young boy by Father and Mother Wolf.
Several times Mowgli encounters human villages, usually as they relate to a woman named Messua who believes that Mowgli is her...
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