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The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson
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Puddnhead Wilson (1894) is a novel by American writer Mark Twain. Its central intrigue revolves around two boys one, born into slavery, with 1/32 black ancestry; the other, white, born to be the master of the house. The two boys, who look similar, are switched at infancy. Each grows into the others social role. The story was serialized in The Century Magazine (1893 1894), then published as a novel in 1894.[1]
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Widely acknowledged as the greatest of his later works, this story of switched babies and slavery is Twains darkest vision of race in America. It began life as a slapstick comedy about Siamese twins, but as he wrote, something deepened. "The tale kept spreading along, and spreading along, and other people got to intruding themselves and taking up more and more time with their talk and their affairs. It changed from a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it," Twain wrote in his frank afternote to the novel. In the end, the voice that comes to dominate the tale is Roxanas, a light-skinned slave who switches her infant son with her masters son to keep him from being sold down the river. Roxana, Twains most complex and fully-realized adult female character, is a compelling and memorable tragic heroine, trapped with her son by the brutal system of slavery and by their own inescapable racial identities. At his best, Twain is the most uniquely American of writers, and it is inevitable that his best work revolves around the issues of race and of slavery embedded in the American psyche. The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson is a dark and powerful novel of race in America, written by the American master. (
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Mark Twain s darkest novel about a master and slave switched at birth combines a courtroom drama with a provocative fable about race and identity. Twain s plot is set in motion when a slave named Roxy exchanges her light-skinned son Chambers with her master s baby, Tom. Roxy s child, now known as Tom, grows up as a spoiled, privileged white man, who is horrified when Roxy tells him the truth. He nearly gets away with a vicious crime, but his downfall comes in the form of a clever, eccentric lawyer, nicknamed Puddn head Wilson. Twain s novel was the first to use fingerprinting to solve a crime, but its significance goes much further as an investigation into the nature of identity. When the two young men are forced to change places again, the former slave finds himself exiled to a white world where he will never feel at ease, while Roxy s child discovers that his newfound value as human property outweighs his guilt as a murderer. Despite its ironic humor and the symmetrical neatness of its denouement, Pudd nhead Wilson is a tragedy that refuses easy answers.
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Mark Twain s Pudd nhead Wilson is considered one of his greatest later works. It is a powerful and dark depiction of race and identity in America. The central intrigue in the novel is two boys, slave, and master who are switched at infancy. Twain s depiction of the tragic and compelling Roxanne, a slave girl who switches her own son with the son of the slaveowner so that her son can have a better life is considered his most fully realized female character. The novel is a provocative fable about identity and race and includes a courtroom drama that boasts the first time fingerprints were used to investigate a crime. There is humor and irony in this tale, but it eschews easy answers and remains a vital and thought-provoking tragedy that is as profound and meaningful over 100 years after its initial publication.
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