"Pudd'nhead Wilson"

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This paper looks at how Mark Twain's "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins" is one of Twain's classic social commentaries. It examines how, under the lens of new historicism, the story reveals the inner-workings of the Old South and how it interacted with those someplace between slave and free.

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"Mark Twain, whose 1890's literary prowess was not always recognized but his peers, capitalized on the quirks of his post-bellum world, ripe with racism, discrimination and crime to paint a careful picture of the fledgling New South. At this point historically, the South was ruled by the Jim Crow Laws recently enacted, modeled with solidified reminiscence of the South before the Civil War; racism was not only a personal characteristic, it was the whole world. This truth is evident in Pudd'nhead Wilson, in which race and slavery play a critical role."

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