MARK TWAIN'S SOCIAL SATIRE: A REFERENCE TO THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER AND HUCKLEBERRY FINN

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was known by his pen name as ‘Mark Twain’, is one of the significant analysts of his times. The humor enables Twain to view his age with a certain amount of affection while satirizing the economic and spiritual disorders. The American provincial exploitation provides for a comic effect in ‘Innocents Abroad’ and other travel books ‘A Tramp Abroad’ (1880) and the classic ‘Life on the Mississippi’ (1883) depicted his love for America and its people. The love for his people is intensified in his childhood memories evoked in his masterpieces ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ (1876) and ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ (1894) are the combined recollections of Twain’s youth at Hannibal. This article deals the bitterness with gloomy acceptance and alarms provoked Mark Twain to adopt the critical weapons of the humorist, the inheritor of an indigenous tradition of humor compounded by Indian and Negro Legend