【正文】 expressed his viewpoint of human nature through the character of the stranger. In his eyes, there were no merits in human nature. From the angle of the author, Twain’s pessimism was displayed by his disappointment to human nature. As readers, we can understand his pessimism from another angle. That is taking the stranger as a symbol of cultural intrusion. The stranger was an outsider and came to Hadleyburg with a motivation to disturb the order of the town and expose the most dishonorable parts of people. He came to the town not to bring prosperity but disasters to it. Mark Twain thought all visitors only brought destruction and disasters to local people. He was disgusted about the outsider’s intervention as well as its devastating effects. However, the intrusion of another culture not only brought destruction to local people, but also brought some positive changes to them. For example, the stranger brought a mirror—a bag of gold coin for the civilizations to see clearly what the town was like. Mark Twain only focused on the negative effects of such intrusion. He thought cultural intrusion was totally bad so that people should do nothing but prevent such cultural intrusion. To make a conclusion, the character of the stranger was a plicated one. Mark Twain created such a character to display his despair to human nature and his pessimistic mood to cultural intrusion. We can also understand Twain’s pessimism from the character of the Richards. The Richards were older. They were so poor that they could hardly refuse the temptation of such a huge amount of gold coin. The gold coin weighed a hundred and sixty pounds four ounces. Facing such a huge amount of money, they selfishly had the desire of getting the gold coin. And they gradually lose control of their will as they had the desire to get the money. They ever tried to fight with their greed but failed. ―Lead us not into…… but —but—we are so poor, so poor! Lead us not into……Ah, who would be hurt by it?—and no one would ever know……Lead us…… ‖(200) At last, their will was beaten by the desire. And they walked into the trap designed by the stranger. From the character of the Richards, we seem to feel Mark Twain’s fatalism. At the beginning, when they lost the opportunity of gaining the gold coin, Mr. Richard said that it was ordered. Then after they were tempted once again and got the money, he said again。除了文中特別加以標注引用的內(nèi)容外，本論文不包含任何其他個人或集體已經(jīng)發(fā)表或撰寫的成果作品。 、圖 表要求： 1）文字通順，語言流暢，書寫字跡工整，打印字體及大小符合要求，無錯別字，不準請他人代寫 2）工程設(shè)計類題目的圖紙，要求部分用尺規(guī)繪制，部分用計算機繪制，所有圖紙應符合國家技術(shù)標準規(guī)范。本人完全意識到本聲明的法律后果由本人承 擔。 in The Mysterious Stranger, he developed fatalism to nihilism. From Mark Twain’s pessimism, readers can understand the evil of money and illusion of democracy in American society. We should not be critical about his pessimism. Instead, we should think about whether we can withstand temptation when we face it. Works Cited Elliot, E. Columbia Literary History of the United States. Chengdu: Sichuan University Press, 1994. Howells. My Mark Twain. New York: New York Harpers Press, 1910. Horton, Rod, and Edwards. Backgrounds of American Literary Thought. New Jersey: PrenticeHall， Inc. 1974. Twain, Mark. The Man that Corrupted the Hadleyburg. Peking: Tsinghua University Press, 20xx. Twain, Mark. The Autobiography of Mark Twain. Peking: Peking Normal University Press, 1994. 董衡巽， 《 馬克吐溫畫像 》 . 上海：上海文藝出版社， 1991. 陳慧姝 ， 馬克吐溫晚年悲觀主義及其產(chǎn)生原因初探 .學理 論 ,20xx， 31021702. 高麗萍 ， 馬克吐溫的思想變遷解析 .學理論 , 20xx(31). 童彥 ， 馬克 關(guān)鍵詞 ：悲觀主義 誘惑 《敗壞了赫德萊堡的人》 Contents Abstract………………………………………………………………………………..i 摘要 …………………………………………………………………………………… ii Introduction……………………………………………………………………………1 Chapter One The formation and meaning of Twain’s pessimism…………… ..…… .3 1 The formation of Twain’s pessimism…………………………………………..3 2 The meaning of Twain’s pessimism…………………………………………… 4 Chapter Two The specific analysis of pessimism in The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg ..............................................................................................7 1 From the aspect of plot………………………………………………………… 7 2 From the aspect of characters………………………………………………… ..9 Chapter Three The effect of Twain’s pessimism………………… ...…………… ...12 1 The effect on his later writing……………………………………………… ...12 2 The effect on later writers…………………………………………………… .13 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………… 14 Works Cited………………………………………………………………………… ..15 Pessimism in The Man that Corrupted the Hadleyburg Introduction Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835– April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain grew up in Hannibal Missouri. During his life, he apprenticed with a printer. He also worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion39。馬克吐溫的悲觀主義思想主要表現(xiàn)在對人性 的失望和宿命論，這兩方面的思想都對他的后期創(chuàng)作以及后來的作家產(chǎn)生了