![]() ![]() Monkey." The notion behind the Great Chain of Being - the belief Metaphorically transposed onto the figure of the "Good/Bad ![]() Savage" and the "Good/Bad Servant" could be No tears would have been shed had Jocko been a "Bad Monkey,"Īnd hence "Bad Savage" and "Bad Servant."Īs the plot of Jocko illustrated, the figures of the "Good/Bad Monkey's socio-politically correct rather than merelyĪnthropomorphized character that audiences found so affective. Was killed, shot by sailors who mistook his good intentions.(6) TheĮnding was heart-rending, leaving audiences in tears but it was the Which Jocko placed his master's young son at his feet, the monkey He also savedįernandez's son from perishing on the rocks. He (the monkey) discovered after the ship which was bringingįernandez's family to join him was shipwrecked. In the wilds of Brazil, Jocko attached himself toįernandez, a Portuguese colonial who had saved the monkey from captureīy "savages." In return, Jocko brought Fernandez the diamonds "Good Monkey," however, was the nature of his relationship Mannerisms (Mazurier had assiduously studied every detail of simianĮxpression, behaviour, and movement).(5) What marked Jocko as a Perilously from the stage to the loges to the balconies),(4) and his What marked Jocko as a monkey was his hairiness (the costume wasįashioned of real monkey skin), his acrobatic agility (he bounded Monkey/Good Savage/Good Servant,"(3) Krao and other hirsuteĪnomalies that surfaced after 1872 were signifiers of ruptures in the Jocko and his imitators were representative of the "Good ![]() Who was reputed to be an human-simian intermediary. Those of observers half a century later to Krao, a hirsute Laotian girl It a man or was it a monkey? Their reactions to Jocko were not unlike Suit, he played the central character in a ballet called Jocko, le Singeĭu Bresil at the Theatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin in Paris.(2) AudiencesĮverywhere were confounded by his simian-like antics and appearance. On Mathe comic actor and dancer Mazurier launched aĬraze that swept western Europe and America.(1) Dressed in a monkey APA style: Sex, Simians, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century France Or, How to Tell a 'Man' from a Monkey.Sex, Simians, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century France Or, How to Tell a 'Man' from a Monkey." Retrieved from MLA style: "Sex, Simians, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century France Or, How to Tell a 'Man' from a Monkey." The Free Library. ![]()
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