哈克贝利费恩历险记赏析

1、Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,by Mark Twain,马克吐温（Mark Twain），真实姓名是萨缪尔兰亨克莱门（Samuel Langhorne Clemens）美国著名作家和演说家，美国批判现实主义文学的奠基人。,童年：生活清苦，在印刷所当学徒。 青年：在密西西比河上作领航员，南北战争爆发后，去西部淘金，后在报社作记者，开始创作生涯。 傻子国外旅行记（1869） 艰苦岁月 （1872）,主要作品,汤姆索亚历险记（1876）是对童年生活的生动描写 在密西西比河上 （1883）回忆了作者当年的航行生涯。 哈克贝利费恩历险记 （1884）反映了南北战争以前美

2、国社会生活。 赤道环游记 （1897）谴责帝国主义的殖民政策，赞扬殖民地人民的反帝斗争。 自传 （1942）是马克吐温晚年的主要作品，在去世后发表。,The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,哈克贝利费恩历险记是一部美国著名作家马克吐温的儿童文学作品，也是汤姆历险记的续集。哈克贝利费恩历险记也是美国文学史上相当重要的作品之一。 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel byMark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the

3、 United States in February 1885. Commonly named among theGreat American Novels, the work is among the first in majorAmerican literatureto be written throughout invernacular(方言写成的)English, characterized bylocal color regionalism. It is told in thefirst personbyHuckleberry Huck Finn, a friend ofTom Sa

4、wyerand narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer AbroadandTom Sawyer, Detective). It is a direct sequel toThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer.,The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along theMississippi River. Set in aSouthern antebellumsociety that had ceased to exist ab

5、out twenty years before the work was published,Adventures of Huckleberry Finnis an often scathingsatireon entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. Perennially popular with readers,Adventures of Huckleberry Finnhas also been the continued object of study by literary critics since its publication. I

6、t was criticized upon release because of its coarse language and became even more controversial in the 20th century because of its perceived use of racial stereotypes and because of its frequent use of the racial slur nigger, despite strong arguments that the protagonist and the tenor of the book ar

7、e anti-racist.,Main Characters about the story,Huckleberry Finnis a boy about thirteen or fourteen years old. He has been brought up by his father, the town drunk, and has a hard time fitting into society. Tom Sawyer and his friends occasionally call him Huck Finn. Jimis Miss Watsons big, mild-manne

8、red slave to whom Huck becomes very close in the novel, when they reunite after Jim flees Miss Watson to seek refuge from slavery, and Huck and Jim become fellow travelers on the Mississippi River.,Pap Finn, Hucks father, is the town drunk. He is often angry at Huck and resents him getting any kind

9、of education. He also returns to Huck whenever he needs more money for alcohol. Miss Watsonis the widows sister, a tough old spinster who also lives with them. She is fairly hard on Huck, causing him to resent her a good deal.Samuel Clemensmay have drawn inspiration for her from several people he kn

10、ew in his life.,ten aspects of Adventures of Huckleberry Finns theme,Friendship Youth Man and Natural World The Supernatural Family Moality and Ethics Religion Foolishness and Folly Lies and Deceit Rules and Order,Influence of the story,In relation to the literary climate at the time of the books pu

11、blication in 1885, Henry Nash Smith describes the importance of Mark Twains already established reputation as a professional humorist, having already published over a dozen other works. Smith suggests that while the dismantling of the decadent Romanticism of the later nineteenth century was a necessary operation,Adventures of Huckleberry Finn illustrated previously inaccessible resources of ima