Author(s): Radhakrishnan Rajasekaran, Dr. R. Shanthi, R. Saranya

Abstract: This Paper mainly focuses on the romantic elements used by Twain in the novel “The tragedy of Puddn’head Wilson”. The major American romantic elements like a life with nature, civilization is corrupt and, social differences due to slavery. All the points are found plenty in the characters in the novel. The protagonists in the novel are suffering one way or the other because of the social structure that breeds slavery. Slavery is the major theme of the novel and its consequences over the people who walk in and around of it. The novel circumambulates slavery and its effect on people. Slavery is supposed to be the outcome of racial supremacy and “society”. This paper is to prove that society breeds slavery and inequality, and corrupts people with its whims and fancies.

Keywords: romanticism, American romanticism, slavery, society, nature, greed, racial discrimination, belongingness

Article Info: Received: 12 Nov 2023; Received in revised form: 15 Dec 2023; Accepted: 22 Dec 2023; Available online: 29 Dec 2023

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.86.32