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The major theme of Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans in relation to the allegoric nature of the novel's climax and to its denouement is the lesson of revenge. The antagonist of the novel, Magua, was a former soldier in Munro's army. During that time his taste for whisky, or "firewater", causes him to be punished by a brutal horsewhipping and he looses his dignity. This dent to the pride of Magua sets him on the path of the declared vengeance towards Colonel Munro and his bloodline in his two daughters. Cooper brings the reader down the twisted path of revenge with Magua. It will be up to the fortitude of two daughters and two sons to outlast Magua's lust for retribution. The children of Colonel Monro and Chingachgook, the noble Mohican father, strive at every attempt to serve notice to Magua that revenge is never a straight line.

The protagonist of the novel is no single person, but rather a group of the good characters consisting of a British Major Duncan, the frontier......

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