Critical review of The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain is considered one of the world's greatest authors with both The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to his credit. What is regarded as one of his lesser popular novels, first published in 1882, The Prince and the Pauper is a literature classic that has been read and enjoyed by many generations. This novel is difficult to criticize because it is written by one of the greatest authors, and has been around for so long. The story is about a prince (Edward Tudor) and a pauper (Tom Canty) who meet each other and end up trading places. At the time they do not realize the resemblance between them, so once they switch places and go off, no one will believe their true identity. This novel shows the adventures of these two boys with the roles they end up in, one in the gutters and one in the palace.
Portrait of Henry VIII
Dyandra Canty
Daniel Canty, Red shift, 2012The reader also learns about life of ordinary citizens in England during the time of King Henry VIII .The main message and theme behind this novel is about the natural human fault of judging people merely based on their outward appearance. My overall opinion was that this was a good novel and it was fun to read. Yet there were some aspects that I think needed more improvement.
One of the aspects that I think needed more developing was the characters at first I was a bit disappointed because, unlike all of the other Mark Twain novels I have read, this one had very little character description. There is not much that you know about the two characters and you don't feel connected to them. There was nothing that you could relate to with Canty and Tudor and...