Characteristic Features of Mark Twain’s Mastership

The aim of this article is the study of the creativity of Mark Twain, the founder of American critical realist literature, who expresses human ideals in his work, reflects various social-cultural-social problems in the light of people's lives.The study of Mark Twain's work is an important task for our literary studies in the era of national independence.Methods: The article is written using scientific and systematic and comparative analysis methods.In accordance with the characteristics of the article, the requirements of its content and the nature of the research object, the existing scientific experience of Mark Twain in world literature studies, especially in the United States, has been taken into account.Scientific innovation: is related to setting the problem and its solution.The fact that the philosophical-intellectual, ideological, socio-psychological impact mechanisms of Mark Twain's creativity are defined as synchronous parallels with the "self-made-man" ideal, which means that a person who wants to be happy strives towards the ideal constitutes the scientific novelty of the article.Practical significance: The researchers can use the scientific results and research principles based on the influence of the article in the research work to be conducted in the field of comparative studies and during the teaching process at the bachelor and master levels of higher schools.Conclusions: As a result, let's note that both in Azerbaijan and in foreign countries, scholars have involved Mark Twain's role in the history of US literature, his works written against the background of human-society-life dialectics, into research on scientific grounds.In order to understand this clearly, if we look at the historical conditions in which he lived and the way of life of the Americans who lived at that time, that is, in the second half of the 19th century, it seems to us that Mark Twain did not see humor as an auxiliary tool, on the contrary, he idealized it and followed the literary norms with extreme sensitivity.