Death In John Carter's The Princess Of Mars

In itself the Princess of Mars is a classic science fiction story, it has fantastic elements wrapped in a foreign planet that is described with striking detail. It is the people and beings that populate Mars, most importantly the death defying John Carter, that makes this story memorable. John Carter is a throwback from a distant time. He has the formidable self- reliance of a survivor. The man lived through the American civil war and then worked as a miner. He is afraid of death, “it is because of this terror of death, I believe, that I am so convinced of my mortality.” Despite Carters fears he had died twice and still he survived. Death plays a pivotal role in the story. The Martians seems to revolve around death and the ability to kill.