Prepration For The Paper

Through the twist and turns of Mark Twain’s life his literary works have varied in many ways such as their subject matter and their tone, earlier works having a much more light and carefree tone, and the later works having a much more dark and concerned tone. With all these different books and different styles there are few connectors between them. However I was able to find something that connected The Adventures Of Huck Finn, Editorial Wild Oats, A Dog’s Tale, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (just the story itself), and The War Prayer. This connection is what I would like to study, the idea of morals and the lack of them in society. Each one of these stories has a lack of morals in its own way that can be considered a reflection on the morals of society. I would like to study why Twain wrote about these lack of morals and what truth there was behind it in the society of Twain’s time. To do so I will use the Gale Research center to find articles about the said stories and their ideas of how morals are presented in them along with looking up how society was at the time and trying to find evidence of these lack of morals.