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1、存档日期： 存档编号： 本科生毕业设计（论文）Pessimism in The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg论 文 题 目：姓 名： 刘芳 学 院： 外国语学院 专 业： 商贸英语 年 级 、 学 号： 09 级， 09042014 指 导 教 师： 邱蓓 江苏师范大学教务处印制AbstractThe Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg is one of the most famous works of Mark Twain. In this work, he expressed his pessimism. He exposed the
2、 degeneration of human nature when people were faced with temptation and the ugly essence of the world. He was quite disappointed to the world. This essay discusses the pessimism in The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg on the basis of New Historicism. The essay explores the reasons of Mark Twains pessi
3、mism from his personal experience and the reality of American society. Then it introduces the meaning of his pessimism. Furthermore, the essay makes a specific analysis of Mark Twains pessimism in The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg from aspects of plot and characters. Mark Twains pessimism was mainly
4、 displayed in his disappointment to human nature and his belief of fatalism, which greatly affected his later writings as well as later writers. Key Words: pessimism temptation The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg摘要败坏了赫德莱堡的人是马克吐温晚年的一部代表作品，在这部小说中，马克吐温表现出了悲观主义思想。他剖析了在诱惑面前人性表现出的的黑暗和这个世界的丑陋，进而萌发了悲观主义的情绪。本文
5、试图借助新历史主义的观点来分析马克吐温在败坏了赫德莱堡的人这部小说中流露出的的悲观主义，从个人经历和美国社会现实两个方面研究马克吐温悲观主义产生的原因，紧接着讨论马克吐温悲观主义的含义，并从小说的构思和艺术形象两个角度来研究马克吐温悲观主义情绪在败坏了赫德莱堡的人这部小说中的具体体现。马克吐温的悲观主义思想主要表现在对人性的失望和宿命论，这两方面的思想都对他的后期创作以及后来的作家产生了深远的影响。关键词：悲观主义 诱惑 败坏了赫德莱堡的人ContentsAbstract.i摘要iiIntroduction1Chapter One The formation and meaning of Tw
6、ains pessimism.3 1 The formation of Twains pessimism.3 2 The meaning of Twains pessimism4Chapter Two The specific analysis of pessimism in The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg .7 1 From the aspect of plot7 2 From the aspect of characters.9Chapter Three The effect of Twains pessimism.121 The effect on h
7、is later writing.122 The effect on later writers.13Conclusion14Works Cited.15Pessimism in The Man that Corrupted the HadleyburgIntroductionSamuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain grew up in Hanni
8、bal Missouri. During his life, he apprenticed with a printer. He also worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orions newspaper. After toiling as a printer in various cities, he became a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion. He
9、 was a failure at gold mining, so he turned to journalism. As a reporter, he wrote a humorous story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County which became very popular and brought nationwide attention. The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, written in 1900， is one of the most famous works of Mark
10、 Twain. The novel was about a town named Hadleyburg which was famous for its good reputation. Everyone believed it was an uncorrupted town. But a stranger came to Hadleyburg with a bag of gold coin to find out an unknown benefactor because the benefactor ever gave 20 dollars to the stranger. The chi
11、ef nineteen citizens wanted to be the benefactor and made every endeavor to get the gold. At last, the honest and upright town became the synonym of ugliness, liars and thief. This novel is a turning point in Twains writing, where he changes his style from humor to satire. Also, he is becoming more
12、and more pessimistic compared with his early writing. Chinese scholars mainly explore The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg from the following aspects, such as from the writing skills or the reasons of his pessimism. Chen huizhu ever wrote an essay to Learning Theory, entitled “Research on the causes of
13、 Mark Twains pessimism in his later life”. She tried to examine the reasons of his pessimism from Mark Twains personal experience and the changes of American society. Foreign scholars mainly study this novel from the aspects of cultural pessimism and pessimist literature. They try to study Mark Twains pessimism in his later writings. Few scholars discuss his pessimism revealed in The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg from the aspect of new historicism.This essay explores Twains pessimism in The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg with the theory of new historicism. Scholars of new historic
