... , which serves to minimize the force of the most painful implications. The symptoms of this fallen society, which Twain brilliantly exhibits in both of his "twin- novels, include the continual struggle between union and disunion for individuals and the society as a whole. The author's early work often dealt with man's internal fights with his own conscience. In both Pudd'nhead Wilson and ... results in prosecution of the "guilty- and compensation of the "innocent."" But even the potential detective hero (Wilson) shows how easily one succumbs to a belief in racial predisposition when he n...

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