The Use of Irony in "Advice to Youth" by Mark Twain
The use of irony in "Advice to Youth" by Mark Twain
“(born Nov. 30, 1835, Florida, Mo., U.S.—died April 21, 1910, Redding, Conn.) American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist who acquired international fame for his travel narratives, especially The Innocents Abroad (1869), Roughing It (1872), and Life on the Mississippi (1883), and for his adventure stories of boyhood, especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). A gifted raconteur, distinctive humorist, and irascible moralist, he transcended the apparent limitations of his origins to become a popular public figure and one of America's best and most beloved writers. Samuel Clemens, the sixth child of John Marshall and Jane Moffit Clemens, was born two months prematurely and was in relatively poor health for the first 10 years of his life. His mother tried various allopathic and hydropathic remedies on him during those early years, and his recollections of those instances (along with other memories of his growing up) would eventually find their way into Tom Sawyer and other writings. Because he was sickly, Clemens was often coddled, particularly by his mother, and he developed early the tendency to test her indulgence through mischief, offering only his good nature as bond for the domestic crimes he was apt to commit”[1] About irony Samuel Johnson defined as: "A mode of speech in which the meaning is contrary to the words." Anatole France claimed that a world without irony would be like a forest without birds: "Irony is the gaiety of meditation and the joy of wisdom." Novelist David Foster Wallace has argued, in the Review of Contemporary Fiction, that irony is an agent of "great despair and stasis in U.S. culture." In “Robert Fulford's column about irony” we find that irony has been with us since antiquity. Robert Fulford also tells a short story related irony by Michael Hirschorn, who tried to achieve freedom from irony: “He
“(born Nov. 30, 1835, Florida, Mo., U.S.—died April 21, 1910, Redding, Conn.) American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist who acquired international fame for his travel narratives, especially The Innocents Abroad (1869), Roughing It (1872), and Life on the Mississippi (1883), and for his adventure stories of boyhood, especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). A gifted raconteur, distinctive humorist, and irascible moralist, he transcended the apparent limitations of his origins to become a popular public figure and one of America's best and most beloved writers. Samuel Clemens, the sixth child of John Marshall and Jane Moffit Clemens, was born two months prematurely and was in relatively poor health for the first 10 years of his life. His mother tried various allopathic and hydropathic remedies on him during those early years, and his recollections of those instances (along with other memories of his growing up) would eventually find their way into Tom Sawyer and other writings. Because he was sickly, Clemens was often coddled, particularly by his mother, and he developed early the tendency to test her indulgence through mischief, offering only his good nature as bond for the domestic crimes he was apt to commit”[1] About irony Samuel Johnson defined as: "A mode of speech in which the meaning is contrary to the words." Anatole France claimed that a world without irony would be like a forest without birds: "Irony is the gaiety of meditation and the joy of wisdom." Novelist David Foster Wallace has argued, in the Review of Contemporary Fiction, that irony is an agent of "great despair and stasis in U.S. culture." In “Robert Fulford's column about irony” we find that irony has been with us since antiquity. Robert Fulford also tells a short story related irony by Michael Hirschorn, who tried to achieve freedom from irony: “He