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ess and made critical and bitter ment 南昌大學(xué)共青學(xué)院畢業(yè)設(shè)計(jì)(論文) Chapter 2 8 on it with sharp eyes, though it was just jokes, his themes were very serious. Mark Twain object to simply make humor for humor, he put forward that taking humor as tools to expose social problems. He said in Autobiography: “humor is only a scent, a decoration, I always summon, I wrote the summon speech not for humor, whether humor is ing or not, I had to write it.” The summon here is not Christian text。 it is satire and deprecation of reality. Mark Twain bined political irony with life humor to form ironic humor. In his works, his humor is not the copies of forefather and also is different from the peers. The plots are vivid and lifelike, make readers set feet in his shoes. Mark Twain’s humor is the bination of inheritance and innovation, so it is innovative, special and typical. Mark Twain inherited American folk’s traditional humor, and used it in literature writing to improve and publish, made it be a battle machine. Mark Twain accepted traditional humor’s effects, and fusion it with irony to make his own works much more serious, profound and deeply meaningful, just like he himself said: “we should not just pursuit jokes。 we should have a higher ideal.” He had a solid life basis, and can percept thing’s root through those superficial phenomena with the help of his sharp vision. Therefore, after reading his works, readers can be lost in thought. The western humor literature affected him a lot, thus, he made use of many exaggerations and absurdity to result to edic humor. Mark Twain’s humor is profound in social significance, so to say。 it is priceless and alarming humor. His humor is distinct from other humor, he was never satisfied with playing jokes only, and his real purpose lied in describing characters or things to reflect vital and profound social reality. His works’ humor really is rich in logical theory and literature flavor. Techniques Mark Twain was proficient at using exaggeration to amplify some dirty things in life, just like laying bacteria under the microscope. So, he could describe the thing he wanted to tell vividly. Such unique writing style can take the effects of exposing capitalist society’s artificial democracy。 disagree with ethnic discrimination and taunting money omnipotence. Mark Twain’s anger to capitalist society was conveyed with strong irony. In the book, on one side, the characters pursued money greedily, on the other side, the hypocritical moral surface and inner heart made an inharmonious contrast. Then, 南昌大學(xué)共青學(xué)院畢業(yè)設(shè)計(jì)(論文) Chapter 2 9 the strong humorous satire was set up. Here, Mark Twain’s humor had not any hypocritical decoration。 it is leaked into the lines in paragraphs naturally. Humor displays society’s absurd things through reflection, pun and kind smile while satire has the meaning of hint, persuasion and condemnation. From the book, we can see the then society. Money was the sole god in capitalists’ mind, and is the most authoritative master in capitalist society. In front of money, the honest persons became crooked, the liars exposed their true face, worshiping money making them lose all moral principles and can do any shame things. In order to get the most ironic effects, Mark Twain spent much considerations and time in arranging plots, choosing characters, describing scenes, reflecting atmosphere and the use of contrast, irony. This work applies exaggeration and irony。 the author vividly described the infamous conducts of capitalist society businessmen and the polite society. To Mark Twain, humor is not only a kind of method, it is a life attitude. He got rid of the confine of British literature, and based on his own plenty of living experiences, absorbing folk humor and taking use of clear, natural and lifelike idiomatic language, then refining and developing living language. Mark Twain countered against lengthy language affected by his journalist career, and argued for using plain language to reappear life, keep pace with new times and fit in with mon flavor. Another technique is the unexpectedness of plots。 unexpectedness is good for readers to harbor expectations, anxiety and restlessness, then to exert work’s artistic tension perfectly. The author maintained the unknown plots to bring curiosity and attract readers’ attention through laying unexpectedness. When the secret was clear, it could produce a special effect. Through the uses of contrast and unexpectedness, bolding the function of The Million Pound in then society, reflecting the different attitudes towards money and deepening work’s theme meaning. The uses of techniques can blend thoughts connotation into the joking plots to express the opinions of realistic world. But this creation has integral strong structure and clear narration. The novel’s structure is strict, the story’s causes, process, development, climax and follow with each other orderly. Style The work’s style of Mark Twain is unique, his particular creation art which bines humorous funny style and strange ideas with irony, leaving us expensive legacy to know about American society, system and people since 19C,and having 南昌大學(xué)共青學(xué)院畢業(yè)設(shè)計(jì)(論文) Chapter 2 10 realistic significance of seeing through modern American’s evil phenomena. Mark Twain fused light humor with bitter satire. He told readers humorous stories naturally one after another, but often with sharp irony in humor. The story is humorous, but also makes people laugh spontaneously, it is bitter irony, but has profound social contents. Mark Twain’s humor has deep social meaning and it is based on real life. American humorous literature has unique artistic style. Mark Twain is th