《汤姆·索亚历险记》中幽默讽刺艺术的研究_英语论文

An Analysis of Humor and Satire in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

摘要

马克·吐温是19世纪美国最杰出的现实主义作家。他一生创作了许多作品，真实地再现了当时美国社会的生活。《汤姆·索亚历险记》首次出版于1876年，是他的代表作之一。小说主要讲述了19世纪中期发生在密西西比河的一个山谷小镇的故事。汤姆是一个活泼、调皮的小男孩，他总是能想出各种各样的恶作剧，并且能成功逃脱惩罚。纵观整篇小说，汤姆和他的朋友逃脱每一次惩罚的情节让整个故事跌宕起伏，更加吸引人。

讽刺是一种特殊的幽默方式，它用滑稽幽默的方式揭示事情的严重性，表明事物的本质。作为一个杰出的幽默讽刺大师，马克·吐温用他独特的幽默与讽刺相结合的创作让人们了解美国社会和制度，使读者了解隐藏在他作品中的真正含义，感受到他幽默背后的讽刺。

本论文旨在以《汤姆·索亚历险记》为例，研究马克·吐温幽默与讽刺艺术的运用。通过分析小说中人物形象的塑造以及情节的发展结构，本文试图表现幽默理论以及讽刺技巧在小说中的体现以及此艺术手法的意义。

关键词： 马克·吐温；《汤姆·索亚历险记》；幽默讽刺

Abstract

Mark Twain is the most outstanding American realism writer in19th century. And he creates a lot of novels all his life. Mark Twain’s novels faithfully reproduced American social life in his time. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is one of his four masterpieces. It was first published in 1876, telling stories happened in the Mid-19th century, in a small valley town along the Mississippi River of St. Petersburg. The main character, Tom Sawyer is a lively, mischievous, sensation-seeking boy, who always comes up with a variety of pranks, and he always tries his best to avoid punishment. Throughout the novel, Tom plays a serious of censurable escapades with his friends, which makes this book much interesting.

Satire is a kind of humor to talk about serious things in humorous way to unveil the ridicule and suggest the nature of things. As an outstanding humor and satire master, Mark Twain uses his unique humorous style, with the combination of satire, to let people know American society and system of the precious heritage. The combination of humor and satire makes readers find out the real meaning hidden in his works and feel the sarcastic satire behind his humor. 

The paper aims to study the art of humor and satire in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. By analyzing the novel's characters and the development of the plot, this article attempts to show the humor theory and techniques of satire embodied in the novel as well as the significance of this art.

Key words: Mark Twain   The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  Humor and Satire