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DEFINED AND DISTINGUISED HUMOR OF MARK TWAIN
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Author(s):
DR. BIBHA KUMARI
Vol - 2, Issue- 3 ,
Page(s) : 56 - 61
(2011 )
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH
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Abstract
“Humour” said Mark Twain, “must not professedly teach, and must not professedly preach; but it must do both if it would live forever”. Whenever people got a chance, a little respite, “they braced themselves with a laugh.” Indeed there was no other means of joy or entertainment for a community engaged in a life and death struggle. “Plainly pioneer life had a sort of chemical effect on the creative mind instantly giving a humorous cast. Plainly, also, the humorist was a type society required to maintain its psychic equilibrium.”–Brooks
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