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A 5 page paper which examines Mark
Twain’s novel “Pudd’nhead Wilson” from a feminist perspective. Bibliography lists 5
additional sources.
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women who essentially took care of the home, cooked, and cared for the children. They were rarely, it seems, primary characters in Mark Twains novels. In light of these facts
many may well argue that Twain was not a man that sided with any feminist issues of his day. However, his story "Puddnhead Wilson," in combination with some of his
speeches, speaks otherwise. The following paper first examines Twains time period and Twains speeches concerning feminism in his day. The paper then discusses the character of Roxy in Twains novel,
a woman who is strong and intelligent and determined to get some of what she deserves from life. Twains Time Period and Feminism In first understanding something of
Twain as it relates to his period in time and his personal attitudes towards women in general we look at a review of a book that is a compilation of
many of Twains short stories that are perhaps less known than his novels. McIntire-Strasburg states, "In his introduction, Cooley points out that [u]ntil very recently, Mark Twains portraits of
female characters have been dismissed as stereotypical and that this collection of stories, in which the (young) female protagonists are not waiting at home, polishing their domestic arts and hoping
for a marriage proposal will cause scholars to revise previous assessments that Twain was ineffective in representing women and unreceptive to womens rights." McIntire-Strasburg also indicates that the
editor of this book, "Rather than choose one sustained conceptual framework for the collection...has chosen to present several...suggests that they represent Twains bifurcated thought concerning womens rights-his attempt to wrestle
with Victorian traditions and his own inherent respect for the intelligence and strength of the women in his life. In addition, he attempts to tie the tales together with Twains
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