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1、粗俗与否?试析汤姆索亚历险记的艺术风格Vulgar or not? A Probe to the Styleof The Adventures of Tom SawyerContentsAbstract.1Key words.1I. Introduction.21. About the author.22. Overview of the themes in Mark Twains novels2II. Literature Review.4III. Plot Overview.5IV. Character.61. Tom Sawyer .6V. Language and Style.8 Co
2、nclusion.10References.11Vulgar or not? A Probe to the Style of The Adventures of Tom SawyerAbstract: Mark Twain, breaking out of the narrow limits of local color fiction, described the breath of American experience as no one had ever done before, or since, and he created in The Adventures of Tom Saw
3、yer, a masterpiece of American realism that is one of the greatest books of world literature. Mark Twain was honored as “Lincoln in literature world” in American. It was he that combined the ordinary peoples light humor with the serious literature. It was he who made the common people or even vulgar
4、 people become the hero in the literature work. It was also he who made the dialect even jargon and slang stepped onto the stage of elegant literature, and finally assured the significance of the dialect in American literature work. The wonderful using of dialect also shaped many unforgettable chara
5、cters such as: Tom Sawyer, Aunt Polly and Huckleberry Finn. His creations combined the depiction of realism with expression of romanticism perfectly and harmoniously. Key Words: language; realism; characters; style摘 要：马克吐温突破了地方主义色彩的狭窄局限，描写了真实的美国社会。这些都是前无古人后无来者的。汤姆索亚历险记是他创作的美国现实主义的一部杰作，也是世界文学最伟大的书籍之一
6、。马克吐温被誉为美国“文学界的林肯”是他把普通百姓的轻幽默和严肃文学结合起来。也是他将普通甚至是粗俗的人物变成了文学作品中的主人公。更是他让方言、土语和行话登上了高雅文学的大雅之堂，从而最终确立了方言在美国文学作品中的重要地位。方言的绝妙运用塑造了好多令人难忘的文学形象。如：汤姆索亚、波莉阿姨和哈克贝利芬等。马克吐温的创作将现实主义的描写和浪漫主义的抒情进行了完美和幽默的结合。汤姆索亚历险记是马克吐温的四大杰作之一。关键词：语言；现实主义；人物；风格I. Introduction1. About the authorMark Twain, the pen-name for Samuel Lan
7、ghorne Clemens (1835-1910), drew his identity from life along the Mississippi River during the years immediately preceding the Civil War, which inspired the characters and incidents in his best known works, including The Adventure of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn (1884). Bo
8、rn in Florida, Missouri, but raised in Hannibal, Clemens first was trained as a printer, but in 1857 he became an apprentice pilot on the great river. At the start of the Civil War, he went to Nevada with his brother Orion, and was briefly involved in mining ventures before taking up a journalistic
9、career (under the name Mark Twain), which eventually carried him to California and Hawaii, experiences recounted in Roughing It (1872). He next traveled to Europe and the Holy land with an excursion party, the basis for The Innocents Abroad (1869), a humorous narrative that quickly established his r
10、eputation and launched his career as a cosmic lecturer. After marring Olivia Langdon in1870, Clemens abandoned the lecture circuit and moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where he wrote most of the books by which he is known, in a period of great prosperity that was ended in 1894 by bankruptcy resulting
11、 from incautious investments. He wrote three works expressing his acute pessimism: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (published in 1900), the philosophizing treatise What is Man? (published in 1906) and The Mysterious Stranger (published posthumously in 1916). From this time until his death, he main
12、tained a bitter skepticism life, which relieved at times by outraged commentary on world affairs, notably on Belgian atrocities in the Congo and American behavior in the Philippines. His last years were saddened by personal bereavement. Returning to the lecture circuit, Clemens recovered his fortune
13、 but his later life was darkened by tragedy, including the death of his favorite daughter, Suzy, and his wife. In 1906he started preparing material for his Autobiography, and in 1907 received an honorary doctorate of Oxford University. He died at Redding, Connecticut, on April 21, 1910, at the age o
14、f seventy-five.2. Overview of the themes in Mark Twains novelsSociety hypocrisy is the main aspect which Twain criticizes in his novels. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain shows that social authority does not always operate on wise, sound or consistent principles that institutions fall prey to th
15、e same kind of mistakes as individuals does. The most satire scene is the one that when the judge visit the Sunday school. Everyone shows off their ability. Children make little tricks to recite more passages of the Bible in order to gain the praise from the judge. The teacher sit there pretend to b
16、e respectfully. But when he finds Tom can not answer his question before the judge, his angry exposits his real intention. Twain shows parental love and indulgence when he refers to family. Aunt Polly attempts to punish Tom, but he always goes soft because of her love for her nephew. As the novel pr
17、oceeds, a similar tendency toward indulgence becomes apparent in the broader community as well. The community shows its indulgence. When Toms dangerous adventures provoking out concern. The community is perfectly ready to forgive Toms wrong if it can be sure of his safety. Twain ridicules the abilit
18、y of this collective tendency toward generosity and forgiveness to go overboard when he describes the towns sentimental forgiveness of the villainous Injun Joe after his death. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which tells the story of the white boy Huck running away with the black man Jim. The
19、y divagate in the river of Mississippi. Twain stirred the blindness and falsity of region, criticized the imbrutement of fighting between feudatories families, disclosed the irrational of lynch, exposit the follies of slavery, pied a tribute to the goodly trait of the black slavery. So this book is
20、considered as the epoch-making of realism. Superstition in an uncertain world is the other main theme showed in Twains novel. As Twain said himself: the superstition activities in The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer are very strange, but they were popular among the children and slaveries in the west Americ
21、a. Twain fist explores superstition in the graveyard, where tom and Huck go to try out a magical cure for warts, from this point forward, superstition becomes an important element in all of the boys decision making, the convenient thing about tom and Hucks superstitions beliefs is that there are so
22、many of them, and they are so freely interpretable. That tom and Huck can pick and choose whichever belief suits there needs at the time. In this regards twain suggests superstition bears a resemblance to religion at least as the populace of St. Petersburg practice it. The humorousness of the boys o
23、bsession with withes ghosts and graveyards papers over, to some extent, the real horror of the things to which the boys are exposed, grave digging murder, starvation, and attempted mutilation, the relative ease with which they assimilate these ghastly events into their childish world is perhaps one
24、of the least realistic aspects of the novel. The boys negotiate all this horror because they exist in a world suspended somewhere between reality and make-believe, their fear of death is real and pervasive. For example, but we also have the sense that they do not really understand death and all of i
25、ts ramifications. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jim preyed when he knew that Huck lied in order to get rid of the search of the owner of Jim. He thought that they would be punished, so he begs the forgiveness from God. Huck clings to the idea that if he lets go the slave, he will be damned
26、to go to hell. And when the “King” sells Jim for money, Huck decides to inform Jims master. After he thinks of the past good time when Jim and he are on the raft where Jim shows great care and deep affection for him, he decides to rescue Jim. And Huck still thinks he is wrong while he is doing the r
27、ight thing. IILiterature review The research on learning the book of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the author began in the late 19th century. All this research was mainly concerned about the themes, motifs, symbols, characters, language and significance in the literature history. There are many s
28、tudies on this novel; here I will name some ones: Stanley Brodwin is professor of English at Hofstra University. He has published articles on nineteenth-century American authors primarily, but especially on Mark Twain and the theological imagination. His article is Mark Twain as an American Icon in
29、which he has summed up the eternal influence of the American icon and the impresses he had made on social of every aspect. Such as: education, industry, advertisement and agriculture. Twain charms millions as the magic flutist of nostalgia for childhood in a simple, nicer, time. Most full-page displ
30、ays of his snowy head devote a corner to two boys on a raft; surely he still reminiscing about them. The Dictionary of Culture Literacy grants an entry only to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer among his books. Its two sentences on the author slot him as “famous for his settings along the Mississippi Riv
31、er.” This alert us to recognize that illustrators take care to suggest an obviously wide, long river, which adds depth to the rafting and appeals to the American passion for the movement and, subliminally, evokes the mythic qualities of water, cool running water, the haze of nostalgia is thinned by
32、humor. Having typed Tom as a “wily and adventurous boy,” the Dictionary of Culture Literacy rounds off:“in one famous episode” he “tricks his friends into whitewashing a fence for him by pretending it is a great privilege and making them pays to take over the job.” That is the most famous episode, e
33、asily outclassing the scenes in the classroom, graveyard, or cave. Though the novel glosses it pompously, illustrators spread on the humor very broadly; adult readers also enjoy its implicit cynicism about what fools we mortals be. Only academic egoists can discuss Twain for long without breaking in
34、to a smileas he would have done himself at any detailed poof that humor weaves inseparably through his writings, character, and body language. Nell Schmitz is professor of English at the State University of New York. He is the author of of Huck and Alice: humorous writing in American Literature (Uni
35、versity of Minnesota Press, 1983). His article is Mark Twain Civil War: humor Reconstructive writing in which he elaborated how Mark Twain used humor to construct his work, and humors significance in his book. Myra Jehlen is Board of Governors Professor of Literature at Rutgers University. His artic
36、le is banned in Concord: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Classic American Literature. In this article he concluded the relationship of this book to the classic American literature: that is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a classic novel and it also made contribution to the classic literature. He Ji
37、eying is a professor in English in the Wuhan University of Technology. His article is An Analysis of the Artistic Features of Mark Twain childrens Novels (Journal of Wuhan University of Technology). He analyzed the features in Mark Twains childrens novels. Such as: humorous, romantic, light and attr
38、active. Zhang Xiaoling co-authored with Wang Xiling of the article The Romantic and lucky Tom Sawyer and the realistic and unlucky Huckleberry Finn in which these two little boys were compared in many aspects: family, relatives, and the impression of their in peoples mind, their belief, and their pa
39、ppy loves. All in all Tom is the opposite side of Huck. Other writer compares the style of Mark Twain to the Chinese writer Lu Xun on the aspect of satire and humor. He draws the difference and similarities between American and Chinese.III. Plot OverviewTom Sawyer, a plain American boy, lives with h
40、is younger brother Sid and Aunt Polly in St.Petersburg, a remote town on the banks of the Mississippi River. Sid is a “model” boy. He is obedient, demure and sneaky. He led a tedious life, fully satisfied with his school and the monotony of the little town. Mark Twain was especially good at humor an
41、d satire, which made him exactly to the point and unreserved they experienced many adventures in order to get rid of the dull classes, hypocritical doctrines Stereotyped environment.Tom is quite the opposite of his brother. The stifling atmosphere of the well-bred petty-bourgeois family is too close
42、 for him and he always on the alert to do some mischief. At school he disobeys the cruel and unjust teacher, Mr.Doddins, and busies himself with outside matters at the lessons. Toms bosom friend is Huck Finn; a boy deserted by his drunkard father, and looked upon as an outcast in the town.But Tom is
43、 not only engaged in mischief. He has read many books and wants to make his life just as bright as it is depicted in the storied. He devises games in which the boys play the role of brave outlaws, and warlike Red Indians who are the terror of the rich and the oppressors.One night, while testing thei
44、r pluck in a graveyard, the boys involuntarily witness the murder of Dr. Robinson. An innocent man is charged with the crime. But on the day of the trail Tom fearlessly exposes the real criminal the Indian Joe who escaped the real criminal. He escapes through an open window of the courtroom.Fearing
45、revenge and pursuit, the boys go through a lot of scares, but are lucky in all their emprises. They sally out several times at night to dig for hidden treasures near a dilapidated house three miles from town. There they almost fall into the hand of the murder that accidentally finds a box filled wit
46、h gold coins.Shortly after the incident Tom goes to a picnic with Judge Thatchers daughter: Becky. Tom behaves like a brave boy, calms Beckys fears and finds the way out of the cave. In a few days time, Tom and Huck return to the cave. They find the dead body of their pursuer, the Indian Joe, and th
47、e hidden treasures. Although the boys become rich, they are still possessed with the idea of piracy.IV. Character1. Tom SawyerThe novels protagonist, Tom is a mischievous boy with an active imagination who spends most of the novel getting himself, and often his friends into and out of trouble. Despi
48、te his mischief, Tom has a good heart and a strong moral conscience. As the novel process, he begins to take more seriously the responsibilities of the role as a leader among his schoolfellows. When the novel begins, Tom is a mischievous child who envies Huck Finns lazy lifestyle and freedom. As Toms adventures proceed, however, critical moments show Tom moving away from his childhood concerns and making mature
