Entertainment and Reflect: Mark Twain’s Humor in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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10.2991/assehr.k.200907.038How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Mark Twain’s humor, spirit of rebellion, consciousness, conflict

Abstract

As a famous American realistic novelist, Mark Twain’s masterpiece The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn presents the vivid picture of American society in the 19th century. The novel takes it as a clue to describe the adventures along Mississippi of Huck and Jim. In this study, it has analyzed different characters of various heroes at the beginning, which can help readers understand what kind of heroes would be like in the novel. Moreover, it also contributes to reveal the major theme of the whole story. Besides, it also analyzed the characteristics of the language use, which included methods of realizing humorous effect used by Twain, such as exaggeration and irony. Just as entertainment and reflection, he has expressed his own thoughts and expectations by means of this kind of “absurd” ending.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ning Li
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/09/07
TI  - Entertainment and Reflect: Mark Twain’s Humor in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 212
EP  - 216
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200907.038
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200907.038
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