Monster Essays - Pudd'nhead Wilson: Slavery
Pudd'nhead Wilson: Slavery
One would expect a novel written with a setting in ante-bellum
south to discuss issues dealing with slavery. This is exactly what Mark
Twain did in his novel Pudd'nhead Wilson. The following discusses the
topic of slavery and how it was used in Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson.
Pudd'nhead Wilson is the story of two boys, one a black slave and
the other a white man, switched at birth. Tom, the slave who is living
"white" with his foster father, his uncle, goes unnoticed in this
condition for all of his life. However, Tom has several bad habits,
mostly gambling, that eventually cost him his freedom....
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