Jane brings the Ape Man back to a villa where her aristocratic peers are staying. Her fiancé, George, becomes jealous of the clear attraction between Jane and her "jungle lover".
In early 20th-century literature, a "good" woman did not have primal desires. Yet Jane explicitly desires Tarzan because of his savagery. In Tarzan of the Apes , she watches him kill a lion and feels a "thrill of admiration." The shame here is narrative punishment. Throughout the sequels, Jane is repeatedly kidnapped, silenced, or left behind. Her desire for the wild must be atoned for through suffering. tarzan and the shame of jane