Twain in his satire, Extracts from Adam’s Diary, attacks the patriarchal ideas established within Christian ideology through the biblical story of Adam and Eve and displays the contrasting nature of the two characters. He seeks to display the curiosity of man by incorporating irony in the beginning when Adam first sees Eve as he believed her to be a “new creature with the long hair” and not a person of his stature. That Adam also becomes irritated that Eve, “the creature,” continually names everything that she sees complicating the life Adam has developed for himself. Through this Twain’s irony is attacking the patriarchal view that men are the epitome of educated individuals and shall not be taught by women who are seen as subservient to them.
