The Living Mark Twain

Mark Twain is a remarkable representative of American realistic literature in the 19th century , he is the first writer who had the literary creation "Americanization" and had the literary language "nationalize" .With hard work, he finished lots of literature works in his life. In his works of literature , he laughed at, satirized and criticized the power of money ,the hypocritical morality ,corrupted politics ,etc. It is full of Mark Twain's humor, he criticized and satirized the social hideousness bitterly . Mark Twain detailed the social hideousness with his particular humor .It is full of relaxation, optimism and humorous style. Mark Twain developed a new milestone in novels for American people , he is a real great native American .Howswil----(1837-1920) the Father of Realism called Mark Twain—"Lincoln" in American literature area. Hemingway—(1899-1961) who was younger than Mark Twain about half a century believed that Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the origin of the modern American literature.At the beginning of Mark Twain's literature creation .American bourgeois developed very fast and it looked so prosperous but at the same time sham democracy and freedom of the bourgeoisie and the defects inherent in capitalist exposed too ,but Mark Twain still had fantasy to the Capitalist so the basis style of his works during this period is delight ,optimism ,humor and pleasure .His important literature works of this time are The Celebrated frog of Calaveras County ,A Tramp Abroad etc..As he realized the social reality under the prosperous appearance ,he began to study some further social problems ,his writing style changed from the humor optimism in his early time to inexorable explosion and bitter irony ,he wrote in an more incisive and satirical style .During this time his important works are: The Gilded Age(1874)The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(1876)The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1885) The Prince and the Pauper ,The ￡1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories etc.. At the end of 19th century ,American free competition Capitalism turned to be monopoly Capitalism. Face with the reality that all the basic contradictions are intensifying, Mark Twain lost his ideal .He became pessimistic for his personal life is not so happy . With the deep realization to the American society, the humor , amusing element in his literature works became less and less, we can know his resentment to the society through the lines of his works. In his later literature works , he kept writing in an incisive and satirical style but with a little pessimism. At this time he finished his famous medium-sized story The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. He wrote some current events surrey such as: King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule(1905),What Is Man?(1906), Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven(1909),The Muaterious Stranger,A Romance(1916).Humor and satire is the outstanding characteristics in his novel creation, it is different from the traditional European literature humor with clear Mississippi area culture characteristics. He liked to be close to the life to find the stories that had the most satirical meaning and did caricatures of them. He wanted the reader could think it over after laughing, thus humor would be more realistic .Mark Twain experienced from free competition capitalism to monopoly capitalism .He stood by the side of the advanced democracy forever. He had his own particular art style and he made a great contribution to that for developing the American literature to the world's standard. He fully deserved to be called Father of American Literature . The third climax of the American literature came with his literary creation .It is Mark Twain who began a magnificent page of the world's literature.