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Rules Criticizing Modern Artist

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Rules Criticizing Modern Artist

Through the Fenimore Cooper Literary offense, Mark Twain majorly focuses on the

critical and satirical analysis of James Fenimore Cooper. Mark, with literature knowledge,

analyzes the literal mistakes and satires in James Cooper's works, exemplary using The

Deerslayer as a symbolic illustration of the mistakes. Similarly, the mistakes or the offenses that

Mark Twain identified can be vividly witnessed with the modern artist.

The first rule that Mark Twain identified that criticizes the modern artist is that all tales

composed by an artist should have a line of an act, accomplish something, and arrive somewhere

at the end (Twain, 2020). This rule vividly criticizes the tale styles of the modern artist where the

tales are at times left at a hanging end with very little to a chive and information to communicate

to the audience. According to Mark Twain, a good tale should at least achieve and arrive

somewhere.

The second offense that Mark Twain used to take down Cooper's work is that all

characters in a tale should be clearly defined and well-characterized to allow the audience or the

intended readers to judge each character's actions in cases of emergency (Twain, 2020). Cooper

widely violates this rule in his narratives. The majority of the tales composed by modern artists

seem to have many poorly defined characters who tend to confuse the readers and audience in

terms of their roles and responsibilities in the play.

The third rule identified by Mark Twain in the takedown of James Cooper's work is that

authors should create a deep connection in their reader's feelings by making them love the

personages in their tale, either the good or the bad ones (Twain, 2020). The author should also

ensure that the readers develop the urge to know the personage's fates. The rule criticizes the
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modern trend in tales where artists use many personas in work without connecting the persona

and the readers.

Another rule that Mark Twain identified is that episodes are an ideal part of tales and

should often develop and make the play generally exciting and attractive to the reader (Twain,

2020). This rule criticizes the modern tale artist who develops tale works without a clear plan

and flow of actions in the episodes, making the episodes less constructive and contributing little

to the plan of events in the tales.

Mark Twain in the literary offenses also suggests that when a tale author decides to

describe any character in a tale, the described traits should be honestly justified by the

personages to illustrates a coherent flow in the play, a feature a significantly ignored by modern

tale artists where in some instances personages are overhyped or named satirically to their

actions (Twain, 2020).

Conclusively, Mark Twain, in his essay, the Fenimores Copper Literary offenses, satirical

analyses James Copper's main work such as The Deerslayer. Mark uses literary knowledge to

analyze the work complimentary tend to criticized even the modern artist.
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Reference

Twain, M. (2020). Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses. Good Press.