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"An ape, a most ill-favoured beast. How like us in all the rest?" (Cicero)[1]. How does Great Apes support this view?
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"An ape, a most ill-favoured beast. How like us in all the rest?" (Cicero)1. How does Great Apes support this view? All literary works provide the reader with an escape - an escape into a world other than their own, where they can immerse themselves in someone else's life and adventures, and so for a while forget their own. However, the difference with Great Apes is that we are not actually allowed to forget our own world - instead we have to confront it. Will Self lets us begin the story in a recognisably human world, but then we are frighteningly transported into this chimp society, where we follow the journey of Simon Dykes, a former human, through this opposite but strangely similar world of chimpunity. Through the use of humour and satire the continuum of behaviour that links humans to apes is revealed, and this is what forces us to...
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