Lilys life style in the sociiety and roxy eager to help her child

Puddnhead Wil word of honor and The habitation of contentment are some(prenominal) tragedies which concentrate on the miseries of women who are the victims of either their get expectations or the order of magnitudes expectations of them.In true Twain tradition, Puddnhead Wilson deals with the catastrophe, thickly laced with his characteristic satire. It is believed that Twain wrote this during single of his dark periods in heart when he was going through pessimism created by his financial debacles. The protagonist of the work, Roxy is a slave who can pass of as a ovalbumin (though she is one sixteenth black). And she is brave.Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence seizure of fear. ( Twain, 36)In order to create a better life for her son, she exchanges him at birth with the son of her white master. But as fate would suck up it, her son turns out to be unworthy of the white mans inheritance and his life goes astray. He even sells her forcibly to a white man in exchange for his gambling debts.In the House of Mirth, Edith Barton takes the readers through the life of highly desirable Lily bart, who sabotages the prospects of many suitors only to find herself resist into squalid dinginess, only to die of a sleeping draught drug (perhaps accidentally). Most of the novel is the pursuit of money.Society is a revolving body which is sharp to be judged according to its place in each mans heaven (Wharton, Chapter 4, Book I)Lily suffers because of two factors. She is incapable of following her heart and removing money as a vital point of the equation, therefore she suffers the constant pyrosis of rejection. She is also not completely efficient in her manipulation of the society around her that she is not entrenched enough to counter the allegations of Bertha against her (of adultery with her husband)Paradoxically, both novels deal with issuedom and slavery. While Twain deals with literal slavery and the lengths to which a mother, Roxy can go to ensure that her son escapes the clutches of slavery that she suffers, Barton negotiation about slavery to the pursuit of money. In the house of mirth, Lily starts feeling free when she has money and starts feeling enslaved when she does not have sufficient money. But the caustic remark is she is always enslaved to the concept of money.Human folly led by tender pressures and an inability to follow ones heart are the causes of the tragedy of Lily, while several unfortunate incidents that start with a noble purpose form the crux of Roxys tragedy. She is freed by her white master whom she deceives by exchanging her son with his and she is again sold off by her own son who does not know the truth. This is one of the best dramatic and tragic elements apply by Twain in any of his works.Perhaps the most distinct similarity between the two novels is the way in which debts ruin a persons judgment and lead him/her progressively towards more dread consequences. Lilys unintentional debt to Gus when she starts being lavish imagining the money he gives her to be her own returns from the stock market marks the beginning of her end. Similarly tomcat gambles heavily and this leads him into finding shadier and indirect means to repay these debts, resulting in a murder of his own uncle.In spite of the fact that neither Edith Wharton nor put Twain try overtly to convey any message to the readers, both these novels work as a danger signal posts which need to be looked out for to avoid any pitfalls related to monetary judgment and valet de chambre judgment as a whole.Works CitedTwain, Mark. Puddnhead Wilson. NewYork Courier Dover Publication, 1999Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth. NewYork Norton, 1990