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Abstract:Mark Twain, a mastermind of humor and realism, is en as a giant in world literature. His humor had great impact on the following men of letters; critics also attached significant importance to it and put forward various interpretations. However,humor could no more be found in Twain's later works. On the contrary, it was replaced by bitter satire. Why did Twain change his writing style as well his attitude towards life?What was the cau of this sharp conversion? Focusing on the questions, the paper tries to analyze the basic elements which affected Twain from social influence and personal encounters respectively, aiming at offering rational analysis of this shift as well as making Twain's works readily understood.
I Introduction
Mark Twain, the pudonym of Samuel
Langhorne Clemens, is the foreruner and
Reputed realist in the arena of American
literature. Becau of his remarkable contribution to the
nation, literary critics spoke highly of his achievements.
For instance, the venerable titles”the Lincoln of
American literarure”,”the true father of our national
literature ,””Mark Twain –mirror of America” are
ud to highlight his pinnacles in literature. His faithful
disciple, Ernest Heming way, more over, onve put it,
“all modern literature comes from one book by Mark
Twain ,called Huck lebury Finn..”
As far as a literatry giant is concerned, Twain was
remembered by men of letters firstly as a mastermind
of hunmor and then as bitter satiric writer. In other
words, Twain in his writing career experienced a
change from being cheerful and optimistic to despairing
and pessimistic But what cau his shift from humor
to satir? Personally, both social influence and
personal encounters play critical roles in changing his
writing from humor to satire and his attitude toward
3002life as well
Ⅱ Social influences
Both the American Civil war( happened in 1861
and lasted till1865) and the re-construction after the
war greatly affected Twain’s writing style. Mark
Twain was born in Florida, Missouri, on30 November
In 1835,into a lawyer family.With the advent of
the civil war, young Twain in 1856 became a steam-
boat pilot, a profession about which he wrote thirty
years later in the book Life on the Mississippi. Generally
爱情宣言英文speeking, the American people enjoy regarding
war experience as their cherished and valuable forture,
and Twain was also no exception. As a pilot he
actively participated in the civil war in 1857.The cast of 英语学习计划表
characters t before hin in his profession was rich and
varied—a cosmos. He took abundantly part in this
life, listening to pilothou talk of feuds, piracies,
lynchings,medicine shows, and savage waterside slums,
namely, he made himlf very much familiar with all
海口翻译walks of life and each coner of the society.Twain, at
the very begainning,was actually optimistic about what
he saw and what he did .However,he had to leave
ignore是什么意思the river country in the wake of the end of the civil
war after four and a half years in the steamboat.In
other words, the end of civil war put an end to his life
as a pilot. Then he tried soldiering once again for two
kids是什么意思weeks with motley band of confederate guerrillas who
diligently avoided contact with the enemy.Twain quit
after deciding,”I knew more about retreating than
the man that invented retreating”.After that, he made
his mind to estabilish his fame by writing. It was
