An Analysis of Mark Twains Humor in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 英语专业毕业论文.doc

An Analysis of Mark Twains Humor in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Thesis Statement：Mark Twains humorous style is displayed through various means in his literary work The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Outline Ⅰ.Introduction 2 Ⅱ. Humorous style in Mark Twains works 3 A. Repetition 3 B. Anti-climax 3 C. Clever use of pun 4 Ⅲ. Mark Twains humor in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 4 A. The use of “I” 4 B. Humorous and satirical unity 5 C.Ideological and artistic unity 6 D. Justice and injustice of ambivalence 6 E. Personification 7 F. .Exaggeration 7 G.Irony 8 Ⅳ.Conclusion 8 Bibliography 10 AN ANALYSIS OF MARK TWAINS HUMOR IN THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN Ⅰ.Introduction Samuel Langhorne Clemens?(November 30, 1835?– April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, born at a small village in?Florida, Missouri, is an American author and?humorist. He is noted for his novels. It is acknowledged that Mark Twain is a great literary giant of America in the late 19th century. It is he, the first American writer, who fuses folk humor and serious literature into one whole and shapes the world’s view of America. Mark Twain is a famous critical realism writer in the late 19th among lots of writers in the western world. In fact, before Make Twain, there were many writers who used humor in their own works, however, they just stopped on the amusing meaning and could not go far any longer. It is Make Twain who pushes humor to a new height that is using humor and irony to satire the negative social phenomena and their own characteristics. And The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn also confirms Make Twains own literatures place on the American literature. The famous American writer Hemingway said that all modern American literature was from a book, namely, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain is the master of humor at the end of nineteenth century in the United States as well as the outstanding representative of realistic literat