Mark Twain has an immediate appeal especially to children as in 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. I am sure that all young children and men who retain their childhood would want to be Huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer. Tom represents the civilised self and Huck, the raw superstitious one. Both enjoy the free life and refuses to meddle with hierarchies.
Mark Twain is thus a reminder of the paradise that every secure child feels the world to be and the world should be, but spoiled by the hierarchy which man has created albeit from a practical point of view, yet destroys the charm of life when over time we forget that hierarchy is our servant and not the master as with many other aspects in the process of civilisation.
Man finds himself in chains everywhere for this reason that every one of his inventions both material and social eventually takes away from his freedom when forgotten and shorn of the original purpose which is serving humanity and humanness.
All great men remind of this yet we dont seem to learn.
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