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1、ContentsAbstract2Introduction3I. The combination of humor and satire.4A. Deep meaning can be implicated in humor which made American literature has tragical laughter.5B. Humor roots from reality5C. The usage of exaggeration and comic to strangthen humor and irony.5II. Strong epoch flavour.6A. The ag
2、e writen coinside with the national life and soul of the Americans.6B. The Portrayal of the exploral spirit, personal intivation and social life.6C. Exquistive psychological description.7. The usage of south American dialect and first person8A. The usage of black English.8B. The usage of personalize
3、d oral discription9C. The usage of first person.9IV Love the people and seek the bright future for the people .10A. Reveal the truth that Amerca is the paradise of racism. .10B. Pity black people and describe the ideal and independent Jim .10Conclusion12Notes13Bibliography14Acknowledgements15Abstrac
4、t: The artistic charm of The Adventures of Huckberry Finn are expounded, from the aspects of ingenious combination of the satire and humor , the spirit of the times, the exquisite psychology describing, the individualized colloquialism description , the narration way of the first person, and the nat
5、ional character of loving the people and in pursuit of bright future. Points out that it occupies a very important status in Americas literature in the 19th century, and it is a representative of critical realism literature in America.Key words: humor and satire; the spirit of the times; description
6、 of psychology; colloquial language; first person; national character摘 要：哈克贝利费恩历险记的艺术表现手法主要体现在以下几个方面：讽刺与幽默相结合，浓烈的时代气息，细致的心理描写，人物语言的口语化，用第一人称叙事，对美国人民的热爱和对美好自由的追求。本文指出哈克贝利费恩历险记在19世纪美国文学中占有重要的地位，他是美国现实批判主义文学的代表作。关键词:幽默与讽刺；时代气息；心理描写；解决办法；白话语；第一人称；民族角色The Artistic Charm of The Adventures of Huckberry Fin
7、nIntroductionMark twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in the town of Florida, Missouri, in 1835. When he was four years old, his family moved to Hannibal, a town on the Mississippi River much like the towns depicted in his two most famous novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adven
8、tures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). Clemens spent his young life in a fairly affluent family that owned a number of household slaves. The death of Clemenss father in 1847, however, left the family in hardship. Clemens left school, worked for a printer, and, in 1851, having finished his apprenticeship,
9、 began to set type for his brother Orions newspaper, the Hannibal Journal. But Hannibal proved too small to hold Clemens, who soon became a sort of itinerant printer and found work in a number of American cities, including New York and Philadelphia. While still in his early twenties, Clemens gave up
10、 his printing career in order to work on riverboats on the Mississippi. Clemens eventually became a riverboat pilot, and his life on the river influenced him a great deal. Perhaps most important, the riverboat life provided him with the pen name Mark Twain, derived from the riverboat leadsmens signa
11、l“By the mark, twain”that the water was deep enough for safe passage. Life on the river also gave Twain material for several of his books, including the raft scenes of Huckleberry Finn and the material for his autobiographical Life on the Mississippi (1883). Clemens continued to work on the river un
12、til 1861, when the Civil War exploded across America and shut down the Mississippi for travel and shipping. Although Clemens joined a Confederate cavalry division, he was no ardent Confederate, and when his division deserted en masse, he did too. He then made his way west with his brother Orion, wor
13、king first as a silver miner in Nevada and then stumbling into his true calling, journalism. In 1863, Clemens began to sign articles with the name Mark Twain. Throughout the late 1860s and 1870s, Twains articles, stories, memoirs, and novels, characterized by an irrepressible wit and a deft ear for
14、language and dialect, garnered him immense celebrity. His novel The Innocents Abroad (1869) was an instant bestseller, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) received even greater national acclaim and cemented Twains position as a giant in American literary circles. As the nation prospered economic
15、ally in the post-Civil War periodan era that came to be known as the Gilded Age, an epithet that Twain coinedso too did Twain. His books were sold door-to-door, and he became wealthy enough to build a large house in Hartford, Connecticut, for himself and his wife, Olivia, whom he had married in 1870
16、. Twain began work on Huckleberry Finn, a sequel to Tom Sawyer, in an effort to capitalize on the popularity of the earlier novel. This new novel took on a more serious character, however, as Twain focused increasingly on the institution of slavery and the South. Twain soon set Huckleberry Finn asid
17、e, perhaps because its darker tone did not fit the optimistic sentiments of the Gilded Age. In the early 1880s, however, the hopefulness of the post-Civil War years began to fade. Reconstruction, the political program designed to reintegrate the defeated South into the Union as a slavery-free region
18、, began to fail. The harsh measures the victorious North imposed only embittered the South. Concerned about maintaining power, many Southern politicians began an effort to control and oppress the black men and women whom the war had freed.I. The combination of humor and satireA. Deep meaning can be
19、implicated in humor which made American literature has tragical laughterWhen researching Mark Twains artistic features people pay much attentoin to his humor. Effected by oral literature , Mark Twain get many materials from western American jokes which coutibute to the formation of his humor. Mark T
20、wain does not has the ideal of only making people laugh but lake meaning in his humor. He combines both humor and irony in his works to help readers to discover the deep meaning of his works when they are laughing with them. His works make readers think about the vulgar of bourgeoisie , the hypocrit
21、ical religion, the decary of the governement. In chapter twenty three of The Adventure of Huckleklberry Fin Mark Twain discripes the ridiculous and the ugly of the two tricsters the“Duke” and the “King”. To deceive others money the two tricsters build a stadge and say they will show the audiences so
22、mething funny and exiting. After theere are full of people the “Buke” boasts to them for a long time. Then the “King” comes out wallking with his hands and feet. His naked body is painted with colorful stripes. Facing this performance the audiences are laughing to death but the “King” still walking
23、and jumping on the stage until his is tired. Mark Twain writes ironcally “That foolish old mans behavor can even make a cow laughs.” According to the writers humorous discraption readers feel a deep humor but after a careful thought they find is combined with tragics. For the first time Mark Twain m
24、akes American has tragical laughter. B. Humor roots from realityCox traces the development of Twains humor and the forms of it takes in his works, are underscored by a pretty thorough biography. The events of Twains real life take a back seat, however, to the actual humor of Mark Twain. Cox doesnt t
25、ry to uncover what real-life events prompted a particular work; instead, hes interested in how Twains humor evolves over time, and how it compliments the real-life experiences of Samuel Clemens. Twains humor first takes shape, according to Cox, while working as a newspaper correspondent. Its in this
26、 highly respectable and objective business that he learns the fine art of lying or burlesque, as Cox calls it. Of course, he doesnt really lie, but he does become prone to exaggeration and parody in his stories, and begins to find his personal voice in editorials. He discovers a feel for subtle mock
27、ery. It is here, Cox believes, that Twain discovers his unavoidable true genius the humor which will come to define his success.Let us look at the original book in which the “King” calls “Duke Bridgewater” instead of “Duke Bilgewater”. There is only the difference of three words but the meaning is c
28、hanged totally. As we know brigewater is clean and pour but bligewater is dirty and smelly. This kind of humor makes the readers laugh and happy but it also includes the writers distaination. Using this humor Mark Twain helps the readers get humor from daily life and mould their moral.C. The usage o
29、f exaggeration and comic to strangthen humor and satireThe usage of exaggeration and comic also shows us the writing talent of Mark Twain . In order to highlight the description of the hero , to arouse the readers Lenovo and to refore the influence of the article Mark Twain uses logecal and comic ex
30、aggratio to help him to get the effect of the combination of humor and irony. In chapter eighteen when Hukle comes to the church he writes: There is no one in the church but only one pig. Because pigs like to sleep in the cool place in summer days and the door of the church is not locked , one pig s
31、leeps on the floor of the church. If you pay attention you can discover that most of the people who come to the church are forced but pigs are not. At the first glance the readers may think this phrograph is unconcerned but think about how many times Mark Twain has caricatured the weakness of religi
32、ons and human. Then we have no difficulty in understanding the real meaning of cartoon humor.II. Strong epoch flavourA. The age writen coinside with the national life and soul of the AmericansThe artistic feature The Adventure of Huckleklberry Fin also existing in seeking for freedom. The theme of t
33、he book is not abstractbut it is full of time message. Literature is ditterent from history but Mark Twain saizes the the national life and soul of the Americans and makes his works have great artistic feature. May be some readers pay no attention to the words which are writen in the introduction. I
34、n the introduction the writer mentions specially the place and the time of the story. Place: Mississippi river. Time: 40s-50s. It is not difficult to find the this story is written from 1884 to 1885 after reading the book. Acording to this evidence we can see the story happened from 1826 to 1845, it
35、 is the time of President Jackson. The expert of The Adventure of Huckleklberry Fin Hoffmann-Antelu makes hard research about it. He says“The personality, mentality habits, values of The Adventure of Huckleberry Fin reflect deeply the people of President Jackson.”1“It is agreed on the Jackson Americ
36、an.”2 “ Filled with a sense of history, the real hostory is reflected in. It writes 19s centurys sencond 25 years American.”3B. The Portrayal of the exploral spirit, personal intivation and social lifeThe discription of many people and stories also emit with time message. Huck does not use door to e
37、nter and out, he jumps from the window, climbs the lighting rod. It seems thant Huck is very naughty but it incarnates his spirit of resist, his spirit of exploration, his spirit of adventure. He comes to the island alone, makes his own house and lives on fishing. He is so young but he risks his lif
38、e in the river never complaint and never retreat. This kind of spirit is the spirit of the American explorers. Fins father curses captain Surben, shots by a despotic but the criminal does not punished, is this the reflection of rampantion of the despotics. And the feud between the Kinnifes and the S
39、hebortions, the revenge between the two families makes the readers hunted with fear. But the two families take killings as nothing, this kind of sence are not the writers imagination. It happens in 1840s America.C. Exquistive psychological descriptionMark Twain does not only describe stirless of the
40、 psychological feelings but also descibes exquistively the complex psychological feelings and the prosess of its changes. The articistic practice proves that more exquistively the literature works are, more influence they are. Exquistive psychological description is an important way of Mark Twain to
41、 reveal the characters inner feelings and morals. It is also the way of descibing the characters personality. He does not only analysis the inner feelings of the characters but he puts them into the story. Through the development of the story, the language and the behavior, he descibes deeply the co
42、mplex of the characters inner feelings and psychological changes. By doing this he reveals the inner sceret of the characters and also highlights the personality the characters.The artistic feature of The Adventure of Huckleberry Fin also reflects in the complex psychologica conflict of the white bo
43、y Huck wheater to help Jim or not. Huck is a white boy who grown up in a slaveray state. When he sees Jim for the first time like other white people he looks down upon him and makes fun of him. But during the adventure with Jim Huck discovers gragully the deligentce and innercence of him. It shocks
44、Huck and makes his inner feelings changes. But he is deeply influenced by the racism which makes him feel guilty to help a slave to run away. He feels he will go to hell in the future. His kind heart makes him uneasy by doing this. He decides to write to Jims owner old Miss Watson to peach him then
45、he will not feel guilty he will be happy again. But when he celebrates he does not make a wrong desition, he is coming back from hell, the sence of the adventure with Jim, the great morality of Jim, the great friendship with Jim make him hesitate. At last he makes his decision, he breakes up the let
46、ter and says“Ok, then let me go to hell.”The inner feelings of Huck is fitted with the age, the personality and the status of him, it is also fitted with his thought. What he is thinking and doing do not go beyond his experiences. The bralliant of the writer is that he does not write at the beginnin
47、g that Huck is totally an antiracism, but from the pity of slaves and despise of them, or makes fun of them to realize the great morality of Jim. In order to save him no matter he will be put into hell. The arrangement of this plot does not harm Hucks feature but it strengthens the reality of Huck.
48、Meanwhile, Huck helps Jim to run away from slavery state is a good thing but he thinks what he is doing is guilty, this is a ridiculous thought which is influenced by racism. It is also the irony of the slavery of the America by the writer. The usage of south American dialect and first personA. The usage of black EnglishMark Twain writes in the introduction of The