The Absurdity of Man in Mark Twain's "Letter's from the Earth"

Mark Twain, who knew the Bible well and had fully read and studied since she was fifteen, he was able to grasp all the contradictions - in "Letters from Earth" - will discuss with his proverbial sarcasm. Sarcasm and biting irreverence so as to convince him not to publish in life, fearing to lose much of its audience and that he wrote in a letter to a friend: "Tomorrow I'm going to dictate a chapter which will condemn to the stake my heirs and entitled, if they dare to print it before 2006 AD, and I do not think they will". In fact, "Letters from Earth", will be published for the first time in 1962 by the will of his daughter and, recently, has been republished by only Liberilibri. In this book the main character is Satan, an archangel jester, who is making a mockery of Creation and its Creator. Satan, exiled for the umpteenth time, decides to visit Earth and maintains a correspondence with St. Michael and St. Gabriel. He wrote them numerous letters in which he mocks the stupidity of humanity and its many contradictions and iporcisie (Twain, Augustine, p. 85-95).

Satan, in fact, it looks like the man prays to his God, even if they continue to send him many punishments. It makes a mockery of Christian dogmas, which provide Commandments in total contradiction with human nature, and tells how the man is a Paradise ugly image, made ??up of individuals who spend their time praying and singing, or two things on Earth are not exactly held in high regard, as no sane person would pass eternity to pray and sing. Satan, in this case, you wonder why, while on Earth the most pleasant thing that people want to do is "have sex" ... in paradise imagined by the men themselves, this practice is totally forbidden and unthinkable. Moreover, he asks why, while on Earth racial prejudice and hatred abound between nations is on the agenda ... this is unthinkable in Paradise, where everyone is like, as if by magic (Twain, Augustine, p. 85-95). They might as well try to love people on Earth, Satan observes. The apotheosis of sarcasm and analysis of human absurdity, Satan-Twain, reaches when analyzing the Christian religion and notes that the Christian inhabitants of the Earth believe that the Bible the "Word of God". Satan-Twain is a book that contains quite a countless amount of gratuitous violence, often perpetrated by man against God. Pergiunta, also provides that a terrible place called "Hell" (Twain, Augustine, p. 85-95).

Therefore, in his letters to St. Michael and St. Gabriel, describes the contents of the Bible, starting with Adam and Eve and telling how they came to the attention of the "Moral Sense" that the Church exalts for centuries but that will be World's damn true. Adam and Eve, in fact, will eslulsi the Garden of Eden and all their descendants will be punished just because they ...