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Mark
Twain's humor in The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn.
Mark
Twains has been considered to be one
of the greatest humourists in the world.
His humour assumes multidimensionality
of range and character in the novel
Hucklbey Finn. Novelist's comic vision
is colored by humaniterianism and broad
sympathy. His humour is characterized
by restraint, control, sympathy and
benovolence. He doesn't single out an
individual in order to ridicule him
or insult him. Mark Twain's humour
in Huckberry Finn verges more and more
on tragic. For example the scene of
shooting of Boggs by colonel shorburn
is in no way tunny.
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There is irony in the attitude
of the people who want to
look at the dead body out
of fun. There is the painful
irony when a person performs
the mock shooting and is entertained
by the on- lookers. Funny
through the situation outwardly
appears, yet it is a kind
of cruel fun which betrays
in humanity and innate cruelty
of the dead alive loafers
who derive Sadistic pleasure
in teasing the innocent person
and animals to death. Such
situations are painful commentary
and sarcastic portrayal on
the people living in the South
Western Society.
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Thus
with Mark Twain, human is not an act
of distancing from the absurdities of
life, nor it is pure chuckling over
the ridiculous in others. It entails
value judgments. Twain's humour surges
up from the depths of desire and can
be described through the paradox tragic
laughter. It is inseparable from the
serious. Almost all incidents after
chartering through comic details, quietly
step in to the areas that rightly belong
to tragedy. The weapons of Twain's humour
are ironic, paradox and juxtapositions
of contrarieties with which he attacks
to the superstructure of social context.
For example pap's brutal behave is also
humourious in ironic ferm relating to
the social real situation of such people.
The sort of humour is in the form of
ironic way behind social status of related
groups or so called civilized people
is attracted. In this way to know
about Mark Twain’s humor in Huckleberry
Finn we should show our attention to
the chronological development of plot.
There
are situations which are full with tragic,
sympathetic and pitiful occurrence but
the purpose behind such situations is
directed not only the revelation of
inner reality but also in ironic, paradoxical
situations of humor. Humour in Twain's
novel is in serious, diplomatic way
rather than the funny way. No any single
person is directly ridiculed by him
rather credit goes towards the whole
system, society, time in very serious,
sympathetic, ironic way. So Twain is
a unique humourist.
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