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题 目： An Analysis of the Heroism in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
浅析《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》中的英雄主义
院 别： 外 国 语 学 院
学 生： 罗 成 凤
专 业： 英 语
班 级： 2008 级 9 班
指导教师： 郭 平
2012年 5 月
Contents
Abstract ………………………………………………………………..………2
Introduction…………………………………………………………….……...3
I. Liberalism…………………………………………………………….……..幼儿背唐诗4
A. Huckleberry’s Escape……………………………………………………………………5
1. Escape from Decent Life ………………………………………………………………….5
什么是过去分词2. Escape from His Father………………………………………………………….………...6
B. Jim’s Runaway………………………………………………………………..………….6
C. The Good Nature of Huckleberry and Jim………………………………….…………7
II. Adventurism……………………………………………………….………8
A. Huckleberry’s Adventures …………………………………………………….………..8
B. Tom Sawyer’s Adventures……………………………………………………….………9
III. Anarchism ………………………………………………………….…….9
A. Huckleberry’s Friendship with Jim………………………………………………..….10
B. Jim’s Resistance to Slavery…………………………………………………….………10
C. Old Finn’s Contempt for Authority ……………………………………………….….11
D. Egoism of the King, the Duke and Sherborn………………………………..….11
Conclusion……………………………………………………………………11
Notes………………………………………………………………………….13
Bibliography…………………………………………………………………14
Acknowledgements………………………………………………………….15
Abstract：Mark Twain, an outstanding American writer, is famous for his humors and satires. He is the reprentative of the American realist literature in the late nineteenth century. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the milestone of Mark Twain. This children growth novel tells the adventural experiences of the white boy Huckleberry and the black slave Jim. This papper mainly studies the heroism in the book, in terms of the three aspects—the liberialism, the adventurism and the anarchism.
Key Words: heroism; liberialism; adventurism; anarchism
摘要：马克·吐温是美国杰出的作家，他以幽默讽刺闻名于世。他是十九世纪后半期美国现实主义文学的代表人物。《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》是马克·吐温的里程碑作品。这部儿童成长小说讲述了白人小孩哈克贝利·费恩和黑人奴隶吉姆一起的历险经历。本文主要从自由主义、冒险主义和无政府主义三个方面研究作品体现出的英雄主义。
关键词：英雄主义；自由主义；冒险主义；无政府主义
An Analysis of the Heroism in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Introduction
Mark Twain is the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He is an American humor master, novelist, writer, and he is also a speaker. He is most famous for his satires. He not only bitterly satirizes the disadvantages of the capitalist society, but also laughs at the European feudal and religious folly. Mark Twain not only laughs at human weakness with humorous irony, but also puts it in front of people by exaggeration. He hopes human being can be more perfect and more idealized.
Mark Twain is known as the the literature giant, the true father of American literature and the Lincoln of the literature history. William Faulkner prais him as the first real American writer, and thinks that the later writers are inheriting him. The themes that Mark Twain自身不足 pre
nts in his literary work reflect the writer's thoughts and experiences of life. From the ont of his literary work, Mark Twain demonstrates a clear interest in the lives of the youth. His famous The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn illustrates this.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the milestone of Mark Twain. Ernest Hemingway prais “all modern Ameirican literature comes from this book.”1 The book tells the adventurous experience of Huckleberry Finn and Jim. T The white boy Huckleberry is taken care by the widow Douglas and Miss Watson. The two women try to teach him to be decent, but Huckleberry does not want to live that way so he runs away. When Huckleberry lives with his father Old Finn, he is ill-treated, so he runs away again. Then he meets Jim on a small island. They two make a team to travel on Mississippi River. During the trip, Huckleberry and Jim meet many people. They meet the bad Bill and his complices. They run into the floating ship which carries the dead body of Old Finn. They meet the good family Grangerford. Then they get to know the two swindlers who bully them. The two swindlers try to rob the heritage of Mary and her sisiters. In Huckleberry’s eyes, the three girls are good people so he helps them bravely. In order to save Jim, Huc
klberry gets into Aunt Sally’s home in the name of Tom Sawyer. When Aunt Sally wants to adopt him, Huckleberry refus becau “ I can’t stand it. I have been there before.”2
Mark Twain黄芪响声丸 us this novel to explore and poke fun of many problems facing American society. In his novel, Mark Twain us satire to demonstrate many of "civilization" problems. Huckleberry, the main character, is considered as an uneducated boy who is constantly under pressure to conform to the "civilized" aspects of society. Jim, who accompanies Huckleberry, is a runaway slave eking freedom from the world that has denied it to him for so long. It is the trip that makes the boy Huckleberry get to know the corruption of the capitalist society, the evil of the slavery and the folly of the religion.
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Commonly named among the “军事后勤Great American Novels”, the work is among the first in major American literatureg邮箱 to be written in the vernacular, characterized by local color regionalism. The book is written in a colloquial style, a general standard speech of uneducated Americans. Moreover, the pro of Huckleberry Finn establishes the pro virtues of American colloquial speech. It has something to do with ea and freedom in th糕点师
e u of language. Most of all, it has to do with the structure of the ntence, which is simple, direct, and fluent, maintaining the rhythm of the word’s group of speech and the intonations of the speaking voice. Mark Twain’s colloquial style has influenced a large number of American writers. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn displays the major achievements of his art: the carefully controlled point of view, with its implicit ironies expresd through the voice of a militerate boy, the masterful u of dialects, the felicitous balancing of nostalgic humorist and realism, humor and pathos, innocence and evil, all united for a journey down the Mississippi that rves as the mythic center of the novel.
