Humor and Satire in Mark Twain’s The Million Pound Note论文开题报告.docVIP

华中师范大学汉口分校 本科毕业论文（设计）开题报告表 院（系）名称 外语学院 专业名称 英语 年 级 2006级 学生姓名 学 号 指导教师姓名 填表时间： 年 月 日 填表说明： 1、本科生原则上应于第七学期结束之前完成毕业论文（设计）的选题和开题工作。 2、本表由学生在开题报告经指导教师指导和指导教师小组集中开题指导并修改后填写。指导教师和指导教师小组在学生填写后，应在本表相应栏目里填写确认性意见。本表最后由院（系）盖章备案保存。 3.学生应执行本表撰写毕业论文（设计），不得作实质性改变。学生须在所在院（系）规定的时间内完成毕业论文（设计）并参加答辩。 4.毕业论文（设计）的具体要求请参阅《华中师范大学教学管理规章制度》(2005年版) 之《华中师范大学本科毕业论文（设计）工作条例》及其附件1《华中师范大学本科毕业论文（设计）写作与排版打印规范》。 5、学生可用蓝色或黑色水笔认真填写，做到填写整洁、正确。 拟选 题目 Humor and Satire in Mark Twain’s The Million Pound Note 选题依据及研究意义 Mark Twains The Million Pound Note is a short story which is very humorous and tends to reflect the current society ironically with a number of humorous plots. On one hand, the humorous plots and Mark Twine’s writing style or skill make readers impressed and make the novel well-known all around the world especially in the literary field, becoming a hot topic among researchers who make study on it. One the other hand, with the humorous way of description and the story content, the story reflects the current social background that people all went after money with cold face to the poor. If youre penniless, people dont really want to know you, let alone help you; but if you have money, then people will bend over backwards for you, even making it their business to seek you out. Mark Twain in American literature occupies a very unique and important position. Ambiguity of his work and personality has attracted many sides of generations of researchers. As writer and literary critic William Dean Howells, said, Mark Twain, the Lincoln of our literature. He called the Frontier Trail Blazers to our great literature, Jackson democrats also correct. He conquered The east, the first time that our literature is no longer limited to the scope of New England.” This thesis briefly focuses on the combination of humor and satire in Mark Twains The Million