Exploitation - “The Child’s Champion”
Charles asserts, "Mother…I can stand it no longer. I cannot and will not stay at Mr. Ellis's. Ever since the day I first went into his house. I've been a slave, and if I have to work there much longer, I know I shall run away, and go to sea, or somewhere else." Charles’ assertions reveal the abuse which he withstands. His enslavement is not a component of unqualified apprenticeship. Mr. Ellis is manipulative for he exploits Charles’ poverty, age, and longing to be an apprentice by transforming him into his slave. Mr. Ellis’ intention is to minimize labour overheads by converting Charles into a helpless slave whom he hardly recompenses for his toil.
Misandry - “How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson”
Twain narrates, “The next day she sat brooding over the humiliation which he had put upon her, and over her yesterday’s failure to avenge that wrong upon another member of his detested sex…Her resentment against Robert flamed up, and she said she would find a way somehow to make him sorry that he had ever crossed her path.” Kate’s detestation for men is apparent. He projects the hate by deliberately seducing men and hurting them ultimately. However, Robert does not fall into Kate’s ploy, for he is not an unqualified man; he is Nancy Jackson in disguise. Kate had anticipated that Robert would be a reachable target for her reprisal, but she is unquestionably misguided about Robert’s gender.
Bitterness - “How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson”
Furlong narrates, “On the very morning of the day set for our wedding she flung me over and married that low-grade fool your father; humiliated me, made me the joke of the countryside; spoiled my life and made it bitter and lonely and a burden; and the children that should have been mine." Furlong has not recovered from the heartbreak which Nancy Jackson's mother subjects him. He is hurt by her action that re resolves to remain a bachelor. He envies Nancy's father because he has children with the woman who he considered his sole love. As a result of the bitterness, Furlong uses Nancy Jackson to avenge by demanding that she changes her gender and moves away from her mother. Furlong spares Nancy Jackson's life so he can use her to hurt her mother.
