THE “New Adam” in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

作     者：童莹 

作者机构：上海师范大学外国语学院 

出 版 物：《海外英语》 (Overseas English)

年 卷 期：2014年第14期

页      面：212-213页

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学] 

主　　题："New Adam" Mark Twain New American 

摘      要：There were many new images with some special social meanings in the 19 th American literary works, among whichNew Adamwas a typical one. This paper extracts aNew Adamfrom the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Through analyzing the protagonist Huckleberry Finn s different characteristics, we can find that Mark Twain sNew Adamenjoys adventures,yearns for freedom and equality. It is these outstanding features that enhance the paper to probe into the social reality of that time and the characters of new Americans.