【正文】 ii ii Abstract Pudd’nhead Wilson, published in 1894, is one of Mark Twain’s representitive works, which reflect America slave culture. The novel is set in America southern 19 century, slave and racial discrimination is a special and sharp subject in America. The author through the depiction of characters, with its peculiar irony, criticizes the American society at that time deeprooted racial discrimination policy and white paper emphatically analyzed two typical characters of the novel fool Wilson and slave my opinion, this seemingly unrelated two characters has a profound cultural links,Under the social background of racial discrimination, the two figures reflects the opposite extremes of racial conflicts in American article will analyze Roxy and Wilson from the point of view of their portrait, behavior and psychological reproducing Mark Twain’s deep and sharp criticism to the ruthless southern slavery and rigid fallen racial culture on humanistic view. What’s more, I want to reflect the influence of this work and profound lessons for later generations, that is, evoking people’s desire and pursuit of human rights, freedom and equlity. Key words： Roxy。 Slavery。吐溫的一系列以美國密西西比河流域文化為背景的小說中，《傻瓜威爾遜》并不是最具代表性的作品。在這個以奴隸制經(jīng)濟(jì)為基礎(chǔ)的名叫道森蘭丁的小鎮(zhèn)里，奴隸首先是像豬狗一樣有價值的商品，他們可以被主人自由的買賣。s social phenomenon. Mark Twain established a memorial monument in both history of America literature . Thesis Chapter 1 An Introduction to Mark Twain and Pudd’nhead Wilson. 3 and history of the world. As a great spiritual wealth of mankind ,his works will be spreaded on earth forever. Introduction to Pudd’nhead Wilson Pudd’nhead Wilson is written by Mark Twain in tells a bizarre story made by man. Female black slave Roxy only has sixteenth black ancestry, her son has only one over thirtytwo black descent. Although the skin of her son is as same as the white man, he still will be treated as slaves for his whole life. So Roxy plays a shrewd changes her own son ,Toms,leeping in cradle and Thomas `a Becket, the white race, the son of Driscoll. As a result, the two wrongidentitied children grow up in different environment not belonging them. During the later long 23 years, Roxy’s son bees young master of the house while the real master bees black grows up in a superior environment, unlearned, also pick up a bad habit of gambling. To pay his debts, he dresses as a girl in the town to steale. Finally, he is discovered when he steals his uncle’s money. He killed his uncle and flees at night. At the last minute of the trial, Wilson find the truth by fingerprint. The two children don’t go back to their own position until Wilson distinguish them with unique dactylography. The style the work telling the story continue the American humor pattern of Mark Twain and it also has a distinctive ideological . Thesis Chapter 1 An Introduction to Mark Twain and Pudd’nhead Wilson. 4 significance of criticizing southern racial and culturaldiscrimination. He sharply criticized the cruel and savage slavary. . Thesis Chapter 2 An Introduction to Character Analysis 5 Chapter 2 An Analysis of Main Characters in Pudd’nhead Wilson The Portrait Analysis of Roxy and Wilson At the begining chapter of the book, Mark Twain uses many words to describe Roxy. From Roxy39。 but of course she was meek and humble enough where white people were. From the first sentence, From Roxy39。 she has thick soft hair but wears the humble clothes。她迷戀血統(tǒng)的高貴，敵視奴隸的卑賤，對于生活的苦難逆來順受，甚至 于企圖以自殺的方式結(jié)束自己的生命，對賜予她人身自由的主人感激涕零。 小說中換子一幕極為鮮明地表現(xiàn)了社會權(quán)力對羅克西娜行為意識的決定性作用 :在剛剛換完小孩之后 ,羅克西娜驚訝地發(fā)現(xiàn) ,/那種使她對小主人說話恭敬、態(tài)度順從的畏懼心竟然那么又肯定又自然地. Thesis