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Posted on October 13, 2021 by Jon Tracey
Mark Twain is as famous and talented a writer as Samuel Clemens was a divided man. Haunted by his guilty conscience, deeply torn by contemporary events, and plagued with debt, Sam Clemens did not live the positive life than many Americans expected of him. Mark Twain may have written classics that defined American literature, brilliantly recording American society in the Civil War era, but Samuel Clemens suffered nearly every possible hardship. Mark Twain was a celebrity famous for humor, but Samuel Clemens was a deeply depressed man. Within Samuel Clemens was a battle where the humorist Twain would battle the depressed Clemens, and each personality had successes as well as losses. At times, Twain would come out on top and humor would carry the day, while other times Clemens would simply slip into a deep depression. Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens were two sides of the same coin, both in conflict but also both necessary to make the man.
Clemens was a man constantly plagued by his guilted conscience. If something went wrong in his life, he would find some way to place the blame on his own shoulders. Unfortunately, plenty of things went wrong during his life. An early event that always stayed with him was the death of a tramp within the village jail when he was a boy. The tramp had burned to death, and Clemens had given him matches. Clemens wrote that the man:
Mark Twain's Internal Civil War
Posted on October 13, 2021 by Jon Tracey
Mark Twain is as famous and talented a writer as Samuel Clemens was a divided man. Haunted by his guilty conscience, deeply torn by contemporary events, and plagued with debt, Sam Clemens did not live the positive life than many Americans expected of him. Mark Twain may have written classics that defined American literature, brilliantly recording American society in the Civil War era, but Samuel Clemens suffered nearly every possible hardship. Mark Twain was a celebrity famous for humor, but Samuel Clemens was a deeply depressed man. Within Samuel Clemens was a battle where the humorist Twain would battle the depressed Clemens, and each personality had successes as well as losses. At times, Twain would come out on top and humor would carry the day, while other times Clemens would simply slip into a deep depression. Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens were two sides of the same coin, both in conflict but also both necessary to make the man.
Clemens was a man constantly plagued by his guilted conscience. If something went wrong in his life, he would find some way to place the blame on his own shoulders. Unfortunately, plenty of things went wrong during his life. An early event that always stayed with him was the death of a tramp within the village jail when he was a boy. The tramp had burned to death, and Clemens had given him matches. Clemens wrote that the man:
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