The social commentary that Mark Twain does in "The £1,000,000 Bank-Note" (1893) is that money does not corrupt men, but it actually reveals their true self and the kind of men they are.
Social commentaries aim to critique a specific aspect of society and they have been used in literature for a long time. In "The £1,000,000 Bank-Note", Twain suggests that Londoners usually judge people based on how much money they have and, at the same time, the author tries to warn them against the dangers of trusting people for their appearance or the power they have gained thanks to their money.
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Here is one of several examples of satire you could have chosen from the story: The narrator says "Englishmen always eat dinner before they go out to dinner, because they know the risks they are running." Twain informs the reader that Englishmen are used to having dinner before attending a formal dinner, because they know it might be called off over the matter of who should take precedence at the dinner table. Twain is satirizing the petty egos of upper-class British society of the time.
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