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在《战争祈祷》中,马克·吐温尖刻地讽刺了美国教会配合美国吞并菲律宾所进行的战争宣传。战争宣传可以鼓舞士气,成为革命战争的力量。但战争宣传也可以助纣为虐,成为帝国主义战争的帮凶。吐温关于美西战争的《战争祈祷》讽刺的正是后一种战争宣传,对特伦波等美国一战小说家产生了重要影响,因为他们关于第一次世界大战的战争小说谴责的也是这样一种战争宣传。
In “Prayer of War,” Mark Twain spiked the war propaganda that the Church of the United States cooperated with the United States in annexing the Philippines. War propaganda can boost morale and become the force of the revolutionary war. However, war propaganda can also help and abuse children and become accomplices of the imperialist war. Twain’s ironic “war prayer” about the U.S.-Spanish war is the latter kind of war propaganda that exerted a significant influence on other World War I novelists such as Trento because their condemnation of the war novels of the First World War also condemned Such a war propaganda.