... unable to live up to its own egalitarian rhetoric. The land of the free (except for slaves) and the home of the brave (and extremely violent and repressive) inculcated racial myths within Clemens during his antebellum childhood on the Mississippi that were slowly fractured, but ... of its manifestations and through all of society's various human class and race strata. Oftentimes the best way to approach seemingly unmentionable themes was through the side door of comedy and satire - areas where Mark Twain had few, if any, equals. For Samuel Clemens ... to deny the sins of their forebea...

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... and "terrifying creatures" (V.O during the opening credits of season 1). The west is (namely 19th century London) is juxtaposed with the new "strange" and "hostile" world. The cast of explorers include Professor George Challenger- the visionary and scientist, Lord John Roxton- the hunter and adventurer, Marguerite Krux ... proportion" (to be discussed later). The media creates a world of hyperreality and is used to mediate the West's political and economic ideology and culture (MS, vol 2, page 23). Through utilisation of particular information and themes, as depicted by the cultural norms...

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