Mark Twain (1835165438+1October 30-1965438+April 2 1 00), formerly known as Samuel Langhorn Clemens, is an American writer and writer.
/kloc-when he was 0/2 years old, his father died, so he had to drop out of school and go to the factory as a coolie. Worked as a pilot, miner and journalist on the Mississippi River. I gradually began to write some interesting novels and started my writing career. His representative works include the novel One Million Pounds, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, etc.
Mark Twain is the founder of American critical realism literature. Mark Twain created a large number of works in his life, involving novels, plays, essays, poems and other aspects. In content, his works criticize unreasonable phenomena or ugliness of human nature, and express the writer's strong sense of justice and care for ordinary people as a compositor and sailor. Stylistically, both experts and ordinary readers believe that humor and satire are his writing characteristics. He experienced the development process from early capitalism to imperialism in the United States, and his thoughts and creations also showed a stage of development from mild ridicule to bitter satire to pessimism. He was good at acrimony and satire in the early stage, and his language was more exposed and intense in the later stage.
In 2006, Mark Twain was named 16 among 100 people who influenced the United States by the authoritative American periodical Atlantic Monthly.
Theme of the work:
Criticize American hypocritical politics
Mark Twain pointedly exposed the collusion between political parties and news media in Travel Notes on the Mississippi River. Mark Twain mentioned: "At that time, the navigator was the only completely independent and unconstrained person in the world. The king is a narrow servant of aristocratic society; Congress was shackled by voters; The editor of a newspaper is always associated with a political party; If you don't take care of the opinions of believers, no preacher can speak freely and tell the truth; The author is just a slave to the reader. The author is frank and fearless when writing, but later, before typesetting, he more or less lost the spirit of his work. " As a result, Mark Twain saw through the authenticity of American political parties and elections and publicly attacked them. Running for governor is Mark Twain's all-round exposure and attack on American social democratic political system. The novel is humorous in style, and it digs into the corruption and darkness of the American electoral system in a short space, with profound thoughts. Exposed the dark inside story of the so-called "democratic" electoral system in the United States and the hypocrisy of the capitalist electoral system.