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it has been touched on some, but historical context is of the utmost importance when analyzing anything, especially when attempting to critique literature.
Twain attacked racism ingeniously long before enough of the nation chose to address it. Sadly it still persists.
nightlyraider:it has been touched on some, but historical context is of the utmost importance when analyzing anything, especially when attempting to critique literature.
Twain attacked racism ingeniously long before enough of the nation chose to address it. Sadly it still persists.
/hates everyone equally
Shakespeare did it, much more subtly, in Shylock's soliloquy on Antonio's anti-Semitism.
He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew.
Not that Shakespeare loved Jews, but he sure put the finger on why people hated them. Much as Twain knew why his people hated n*ggers.
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