Moral and Democratic Society System in Twain’s The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg

This article aimed to find out the social criticism in the short story The man that Corrupted Hadleyburg. It applied the descriptive method. The data were the text of the short story The man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain as the primary data and some information that related to the research as the secondary data such as the theory and sociology of literature. The data were collected through comprehensive reading, transcribing some quotations that supported the research, and classified one by one. This research applied genetic structuralism to analyze the data. It concluded that social criticism in the man that Corrupted Hadleyburg is moral criticism which is described in the main character, are Edward Richard, reverend Burgess, and other supporting characters. Besides that, the individualism attitude, materialism, and racism are also described in that short story. The other thing is about the democratic society system in Hadleyburg at the time becomes the attention from the writer to explain more. The reaction from the people in Hadleyburg to the sack of gold becomes the last point that is explained