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How did his life and experiences affect the book? I know he enjoyed poking fun at the British and also had a lot in common with the main characters, but what else?

2007-05-14 15:52:02 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

Forgot to say thank you. :D

2007-05-14 15:52:20 · update #1

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ABOUT THE NOVEL

The Prince and the Pauper (1882), along with A Tramp Abroad and Life on the Mississippi, was written by Mark Twain as he put aside The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn after working through the first sixteen chapters.
Its style, however, differs greatly from the Mark Twain most students have encountered in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Instead of the folksy dialectical mastery Twain shows in that novel, his style in this book recalls that of Dickens, packed with setting and character description that makes 16th-century England come to life. Both authors share biting realism cloaked in humor, effective political commentary, and an uncanny means of creating pathos in the reader. Pauper recalls the lighter tone of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), but retains the political edge that is unmistak-
ably Twain.

During Mark Twain’s writing of The Prince and the Pauper, he wrote to William Dean Howells:
"My idea is to afford a realizing sense of the exceeding severity of the laws of that day by inflicting some of
their penalties upon the King himself and allowing him a chance to see the rest of them applied to others—all
of which is to account for a certain mildness which distinguished Edward VI’s reign from those that preceded
and followed it" (Notebook 34, 377).

The novel gets its realism from extensive research using Hume’s History of England, Timbs’ Curiosities of England, and Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull’s Blue Laws, True and False. There are anachronisms; however, these do not detract from the overall effect of the book. Because of the parallels to Dickens’ themes and style as well as the excellent background into the Tudor period of England,
The Prince and the Pauper is recommended for students of British as well as American literature.

2007-05-15 01:57:44 · answer #1 · answered by ari-pup 7 · 0 0

It skill ''The King is ineffective, long stay The King'', that's French, and it advance into proclamed whilst the King Louis (do no longer remember the extensive sort) advance into decapitated throughout the time of the French Revolution. Greetings buddy!

2016-10-05 02:15:39 · answer #2 · answered by husted 4 · 0 0

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