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Abstract: Mark Twain is a famous American novelist, whose works which are famous for his humor and irony mostly involve theme novels, plays, essays, poetry and so on. His works through ironic humorous writing style was criticized US various unreasonable social phenomenon and the ugliness of human nature,Twain expressed his strong sense of justice and compassion for subaltern, but also profoundly revealed the indifference of the American capitalist society and human well-being.This article aims to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, for example, research and interpretation of Mark Twain's Satire and Humor approach to shape and influence the character of the relationship between the construction of the theme.40668
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Key words: humor, irony, American capitalist society
摘要：马克•吐温是美国著名的小说家，其作品题材涉及小说、剧本、散文、诗歌等，大多以幽默和辛优尔著称。其作品通过讽刺幽默的写作手法批判了当时美国种种不合理的社会现象与人性的丑恶，表达了他强烈的正义感和对底层人民的同情，同时也深刻揭示了美国资本主义社会的冷漠及人情的冷暖。本文旨以《汤姆索亚历险记》为例，研究和阐释马克•吐温的讽刺与幽默手法在人物性格塑造和对主题建构的关系的影响。
毕业论文关键词：幽默, 讽刺, 美国资本主义社会
A Study of Mark Twain’s Rhetorical Devices: Irony and Humor in the Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1 Introduction
1.1 A brief introduction to the author and rigorous writing style
Mark Twain ,the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American writer, journalist and humorist, who won a worldwide audience for his stories of the youthful adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri, of a Virginian family. He was brought up in Hannibal, Missouri. After his father's death in 1847, he was apprenticed to a printer.and later worked as a licensed Mississippi river-boat pilot. On February 3, 1863, 'Mark Twain' was born when Clemens signed a humorous travel account with that pseudonym. In 1864 Twain left for California, and worked in San Francisco as a reporter. Between 1876 and 1884 he published several masterpieces, Tom Sawyer (1881) and The Prince And The Pauper (1881). Life On The Mississippi appeared in 1883 and Huckleberry Finn in 1884. In the 1890s Twain lost most of his earnings in financial speculations and in the failure of his own publishing firm.He wrote such books as The Tragedy Of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1884), Personal Recollections Of Joan Of Arc (1885), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and the travel book Following The Equator (1897).Twain died on April 21, 1910.
Mark Twain experienced the United States from the "free" capitalism to imperialism, the development process of their ideas and creativity is also expressed as to the biting satire from the light make fun of and then to pessimism, stage of development. His early works with a sense of humor, humorous way. The medium-term work is a deep, spicy tone to the ugly reality. The late 19th century, His travel notes, essays, political commentary to expose the critical significance of gradually weakened, while the mysterious mood of despair has some stretch.
1.2A brief introduction to the significance of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is one of the greatest successes of works of Mark Twain. It is filled with happiness, adventures and fantasies of social life through a child, Tom reveals the fifties and sixties of the nineteenth century the South American society blocking, dreary, rigid life. Its charm is reflected in the language witty, humorous, full of personality language. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer research can be pided into domestic scholars from overseas research and the author's background.
In the first place,Chinese researchers prefer to study The Adventures of Tom Sawyer novel as an interesting story, so they want to discuss belletristic ways the story of the Sarcastic humor novel by voice. For example, Chinese researchers pay more attention to the story through the speakers of the sarcasm and humor emotions displayed.