How Does Mark Twain Use Satire In The Damned Human Race
Tazeen Shaukat
Engl 101
18-10809
The Damned Human Race By Mark Twain
Summary-
The essay the damned human race has been written by Mark Twain. In this essay Mark Twain uses satire, most notably sarcasm, to show that the world is more downhill than the average individual could imagine. The author does not approve of Darwinian theory that the man has been ascended from the lower animals, rather claims that that the man are actually de-evolved and are the lesser species - "descending from the higher animals". The author further claims that the unappealing conclusion he reached was not guessed or speculated or even conjectured, but was based upon the commonly …show more content…
In this essay he shows a harsher side of himself. I agree and disagree with Mark Twain’s essay. He shows signs of a joking tone at times but it is clear that he is not ridiculing the entire subject just for the sake of a cheap laugh or for stupid ridicule; it is obvious that he wants things to change. This essay will make you wonder about the bad qualities which is embedded in a human being but I thing that Mr. Twain, in this essay has exaggerated the bad qualities of a human being by depicting them as completely worthless, wasteful and a corrupt creature and not even considered the good qualities which can be only found in a man and not the higher animals. He gave us the feeling that he wanted the reader to believe that a man is such a degraded creature that his worth should be below animals. I do believe that even though he did live in a different time but cruelty still exists the same but If you analyze the human race or all animals, you can find evil in both creatures. In my point of view the comparison between animals and man were not done properly because Animals also do some awful things to each other. I do agree that many men kill each other because of greed, corruption, or solely due to the sake of pleasure as explained by Mark Twain, but that does not mean that all humans always kill to be cruel and wasteful. There are a lot of positive traits of humans as well; but he goes into detail of only the negative traits of humans. If there are bad people, there can also be good people. In the essay He uses satire to reveal that humans falsify and contaminate their only superior trait over the lower animals, the animal's sense of morality. He believes that man is not a reasoning animal, which in my opinion is completely wrong because it is the main trait or factor which distinguishes us from all the other creatures of the world, man has the capability of distinguishing between right and
Engl 101
18-10809
The Damned Human Race By Mark Twain
Summary-
The essay the damned human race has been written by Mark Twain. In this essay Mark Twain uses satire, most notably sarcasm, to show that the world is more downhill than the average individual could imagine. The author does not approve of Darwinian theory that the man has been ascended from the lower animals, rather claims that that the man are actually de-evolved and are the lesser species - "descending from the higher animals". The author further claims that the unappealing conclusion he reached was not guessed or speculated or even conjectured, but was based upon the commonly …show more content…
In this essay he shows a harsher side of himself. I agree and disagree with Mark Twain’s essay. He shows signs of a joking tone at times but it is clear that he is not ridiculing the entire subject just for the sake of a cheap laugh or for stupid ridicule; it is obvious that he wants things to change. This essay will make you wonder about the bad qualities which is embedded in a human being but I thing that Mr. Twain, in this essay has exaggerated the bad qualities of a human being by depicting them as completely worthless, wasteful and a corrupt creature and not even considered the good qualities which can be only found in a man and not the higher animals. He gave us the feeling that he wanted the reader to believe that a man is such a degraded creature that his worth should be below animals. I do believe that even though he did live in a different time but cruelty still exists the same but If you analyze the human race or all animals, you can find evil in both creatures. In my point of view the comparison between animals and man were not done properly because Animals also do some awful things to each other. I do agree that many men kill each other because of greed, corruption, or solely due to the sake of pleasure as explained by Mark Twain, but that does not mean that all humans always kill to be cruel and wasteful. There are a lot of positive traits of humans as well; but he goes into detail of only the negative traits of humans. If there are bad people, there can also be good people. In the essay He uses satire to reveal that humans falsify and contaminate their only superior trait over the lower animals, the animal's sense of morality. He believes that man is not a reasoning animal, which in my opinion is completely wrong because it is the main trait or factor which distinguishes us from all the other creatures of the world, man has the capability of distinguishing between right and