What was the general Canadian attitude to ‘Nature’ in the early years of Canada’s existence as a nation?

“The most powerful agent in the novel is the forest – a “psychological space that is unmigatingly terrifying. Here nature is total opposition to culture and holds no possibility except nightmare.

Happiness, liberty and civilisation itself is pressed nostalgically within the safe walls of the fort which is surrounded by a huge, unthinking, menacing and formidable wilderness. A personal motive of revenge, requires a symbolic paradigm: two aspects of the white man at war. On the one hand is the super-ego: which is authoritarian, repressive, militaristic and committed to an ideal of order. On the other hand is the unconscious passional mind rising in nightmare violence against all the constraints it. The novel’s gothicism, thus easily turns the forest into a dream landscape.

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