Through fragmented flashbacks, we learn that Tarzan’s courtship was not romantic but coercive. He never asked her to stay; he simply refused to leave her side, snarling at any white man who approached, destroying her father’s compass, and systematically isolating her from the expedition party. The “shame” of the title is multi-layered: Jane’s shame at her own arousal during their first, non-consensual encounter (she rationalizes it as “jungle fever”); her shame at her colonial desire to “civilize” him; and ultimately, her shame at recognizing that she has become complicit in her own captivity.
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