LITERARY ANALYSIS ON MARK TWAIN'S WRITING

Literary analysis on Mark Twain's writing



Literary analysis on Mark Twain's writing

Mark Twain:

Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida (Missouri). His childhood was marked by limited education in public schools and early death of his father. At the age of 12, he was forced to work in a couple of printing presses as an apprentice. Since then the world of journalism and literary accompanied him for the rest of his life. (Twain, 1995)

Even though, Mark Twain has created the characters of his novels with harsh ideals of racism, these characters are one of the most important reasons that made Mark's writing so true to life. Mark used realism in his work to educate the readers. Before that, people were only interested in reading fantasy based stories which portrayed an idea of a perfect world with a thin line defining the difference between the good and the bad. Mark's writing depicted a true picture of what reality is all about. It made people realize that they themselves held the so called bad-men ideals in the society.

While portraying realism through his writing, Mark paid proper attention to each and every detail of his work. This aspect of realism attracted numerous readers to immerse and involve themselves in the stories. The aspect of realism is generally illustrated through the vernacular, comics and the tone of the text. For example, in the story, The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Mark manipulated the diction and tone by writing real events into comical episodes. (Twain, 1995)

Realism is also manifested in mark's writing by the use of his deep dialect. By using this writing style, readers are able to have a clear view about the characters, how they talk, look and act. Mark takes this affect further by adding the vernacular element that was not used in any of the literature work previously. He has always tried to make every aspect of his writing, the setting, the characters and the plot to be as close to reality as possible.

Although, there are numerous day-to-day events taking place that cannot be explained in the realistic manner, but Mark tried to build an imaginary world in which things could be explained in a realistic way. The most famous example of this methodology is the novel: “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn”.

Huckleberry Finn:

The Adventures Huckleberry Finn is a very realistic novel, ...