Mark Twain马克吐温的一生 英文课件

style
Theme
Maturation Freedom
Adventure
Forgiveness
Friendship
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Maturation
moral growth: mischievous mature
About maturity
• Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it. • Forgive and forget, and don't hold grudges.
• Mark Twain’s views • From imperialism to Anti- imperialism • Civil rights--the supporter of abolition and emancipation, women’s rights • Support labor movement
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General Features
• Themes
• The character of the "Yankee" is said to be the first American comic figure, the first widely accepted American character that the nation could find funny, make fun of and even export for the amusement of the world - a gangly traveler who told stories, played elaborate practical jokes, was ingenuous, sly, perhaps uneducated. 4
• Young Adult life • • • • • 1854 – worked as a printer, educated himself in public libraries 1857 – became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River 1861– Civil War broke out, he headed west and traveled a lot. 1865 – worked in local newspapers 1866-1869 He traveled to Sandwich, Europe and the Middle West
• Early life • At the age of four, Twain's family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, a town on the Mississippi River
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In1847‚ his father died. He left school to work as a printer’s apprentice.
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• Types of humor
• American humor might be distinguished by its slapstick and physical comedy. There is less emphasis on understatement. • American humor prefers more observational techniques. it seeks to point out the aspects of American culture and social discourse which are obvious while at the same time highlighting their ridiculousness.
• escape
Part three: returning
• Reappear • testify • Observe
Part three: returning
• Stray & back
Part three: returning
• Gold & possession
characters
• Protagonist:
II. Writing Style
Mark Twain’s writing style
Language
1. Humorous to satirize and criticize 2. Localization slang, insolent and racist language
Content
II. Freedom
Change: complete freedom—restrained freedom
About freedom and Liberty
• Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness ----- “The Declaration of Independence ” • Liberty is maintained by responsible freedom.
• American comedy appeared after the American Revolution, when the country was "freed from the worry of self preservation" and its citizens began to regard themselves as "works of art".
• Built on American themes
Forms
1. Humorous verse
2. Early journalism and travelogues 3. Adventure novel
III.His Works
• Setting • In the 1840s • In the Mississippi
Tom Sawyer
• Supporting characters: Huckleberry Finn Sid Aunt Polly
• Language: • Colloquial language and dialect • Atmosphere: • humorous and light-hearted • Adventure genre
• Darkest time and Late life • 1903-1904 his wife was ill and died • 1908– his second daughter died
What happened during Mark Twain’s lifetime in America
• Industrial Revolution and advancement– the transportation • Westward expansion–By 1840, 40% Americans moved west • Civil war (1861-1865)- civil rights and abolition of slavery • The literary movement– Realism (1860s-1900s) • Foreign wars – Spanish-America War and Philippine war(1898) Boer war in south Africa
plot
• Part one: staying • Part two: escaping
• Part three: returning
part one: staying
whitewash
part one: staying
• engage
part two: escaping
• witness
part two: escarican Humor?
• American humor refers collectively to the conventions and common threads that tie together humor in the United States. • American Humor usually concerns aspects of American culture, and depends on the historical and current development of American culture. The extent to which an individual will personally find something humorous obviously depends on geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education, and context.
• Marriage and family
• • • • • 1870 -- married with Olivia Langdon 1871 -- his son died 19 months 1872 – daughter Susy 1874 – daughter Clara 1880 – daughter Jean
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American Humor in Literature
• Humor began to emerge in the United States soon after the American Revolution in written and spoken form. • Humor in literature appears before cartoons although newspaper cartoons in the modern sense began in the 1840s.
• Financial ruin and Travels • • • • 1891-1900 – made bad investments 1894– his publishing company failed 1896 – his son Susy Clemens died at the age of 24 His family traveled throughout the world from 1891 to 1900
IV. American Humor
American Humor
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American Humor
• What is American Humor? • General features


Themes Types of humor
• American humor in literature-Mark Twain
Mark Twain (1835~1910)
I. Background
Mark Twain
• Name : Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Born : November 30, 1835, Florida, Missouri, U.S. • Died : April 21, 1910 (aged 74), Redding, Connecticut, U.S. • Pen name: Mark Twain • Genres : Fiction, historical fiction, children's literature, non-fiction,travel literature, satire,essay, philosophical literature, social commentary, literary criticism • Notable work(s) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer