《哈克贝利费恩历险记》中河的象征意义 --毕业论文.doc

【标题】《哈克贝利费恩历险记》中河的象征意义 【作者】卢 茵 【关键词】密西西比河；象征；自由；虚无缥缈 【指导老师】张晓梅 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionMark Twain is a remarkable representative of American realistic literature in the 19th Century, and he is the first writer who has the literary creation?“Americanization” and the literary language?“nationalize”. His delicate familiarities with children’s psychology, his thorough understanding of Americans and American society, and his great contributions to American English, have won great respect and reputation among the people around the world. With hard work, he has finished lots of literary works in his life. In his works of literature, he laughed at, satirized and criticized the power of money, the hypocritical morality, corrupted politics. One of his friends, Howells called him?“Lincoln of our literature”1 and a literary critic, H. L. Mencken believed that Mark Twain was?“the true father of our national literature, and the first genuine American artist of the blood royal of all the works Twain accomplished in his life.”2The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of his most famous novels. It is a story about a young boy and a black slave, who, in a desperate situation attempt to escape from the real society, and seek help with the Mississippi River, where they experience many different trials. The novel took him eight years to finish and in 1884 it was published in Britain and then in America in 1885. After that, many critics at home and abroad sang highly of it. The Nobel Prize winner and American novelist, Hemingway believed that?“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”3 During the course of over one hundred years after its publication, it was popular and among all walks of man. If we pay attention to the Mississippi River, we can find out the reason of Huckleberry Finn’s success.Many critics consider the river in the novel as a linkage of adventures, but also, for deepening the theme, it has symbolic signi