Portrayal of the Southeners in Pudd\'nhead Wilson

Puddnhead Wilson, indite by Mark bitstock, has as its main themes the character versus bringing up conflict, honor, betrayal, racial distinctions and identity.\nThe point of this stress is to show how Mark Twain portrays a certain loving group, in this particular subject field the Southerners. In order to commence to a conclusion I will try out the villagers and turkey cock Driscoll  from Dawson ´s Landings. Tom Driscoll is a special subject to analyze, since firstly, he isnt a part of the incarnate identity that the southerners share, and secondly, one could entreat that being Roxys son, he cant map out the southerners. This dilemma creates a nature versus nurture conflict, which will be addressed later on. The points I will focus on are how the southerners are want a human herd, in which e reallyone follows everyone else without thinking for themselves, on how they tighten and care so much(prenominal) about their reputation and on how Mark Twain shows us tha t you can actually conduct to be white. Twain ´s book bindingground is an important factor out to have into consideration earlier analyzing the story, since he is a southerner himself, increase in the slavery time and therefore presents a very veridical view on them. \nFirstly, I will analyze how Mark Twain portrays this kindly group as a collective identity ground on prejudice and tradition, which makes them seek ignorant. They are constantly portray throughout the book as judgmental and extremely traditional, which in this case, blinds them from progress. Even though they depend to be very steep of their lifestyle and beliefs, they still send word some things of the north, shown when Tom Driscoll comes back from Yale and it says He came home with his dexterity a close hatch improved; he had mixed-up his surliness and brusqueness, and was rather sunnily soft and smooth at once: he was furtively, and sometimes openly, wry of speech, and given to gently contact p eople on the raw, only if he did it with a good natured semiconscious a...