Mark Twain really dislikes human beings. He pretty much states how the animal race is smarter and kinder to each other than the human race is. Twain had done a series of studies trying to decipher the traits and dispositions between humans and “lower animals” and the result was humiliating. He is trying to prove his theory in contrary to the Darwinian Theory. Twain had done an experiment comparing the behavior between different animal species locked in a cage, and nine different religious representatives over the course of two days. The animals got along just fine, living in peace. By the end of the second day, there was not one human left alive, only a chaos of gory ends and ends of turbans and fezzes and bones. Man has been described using the words ¨Indecency, vulgarity, and obscenity¨ because …show more content…
It seems to me that Twain has the same thoughts as the philosopher Thomas Hobbes who believed that all human beings are evil. Twain might even be described as a misanthrope.
I agree with most of what Mark Twain has to say. I do not think that every man is naturally good and everyone in the world lives in peace and unity because that is certainly not the case. I am still curious as to if the cage experiment with the humans actually did happen since after two days everyone was dead, and could only be dead by the hands of another person. The points that I do agree with is man did make a name for itself. Man is indecent and vulgar and it has just been taught throughout many generations that it is okay to be like that when in all reality, it isn´t. I disagree with the line ¨the earl is cruel and the anaconda isn´t.¨ That was based out of his study to see if an anaconda would cause any harm to seven calves. He even states that the anaconda had crushed and and ingested the calf. In my own opinion, he is just contradicting himself and anacondas are just plain evil