Mark Twain’s masterpiece “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is considered by many to be the greatest American novel ever written, which incorporates contrasting themes around a central plot to emphasize the purposes of humor and insight. It is a typical satire by using the humor to criticize the hypocrisy of “Civilized” Society and get a rise out of the gullibility of people. in “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, the Grangerford and shepherdson families which had malevolence toward each other, pious widow who owned slaves and the duck and dauphin who disguise themselves as members of the upper classes are the hypocrites just like John proctor, in “crucible”, who’s seen as a moral, well-respected man on the surface, but in fact betrayed his wife and had an adulatory with Abilgail, and those judges who claimed themselves as religious and justice people but killed innocent people in order to keep the reputation and position in the society.
Widow Douglass, the pious woman with Miss Watson who adjusts Huck’s life with strict etiquette and wants to teach Huck all the things his father has neglected. Huck has to go to eat on time when Douglass rings the bell and has to wait until she tucks down her head, gets a little over her plate. Huck is forced to wear elaborate clothing with collar all the time, get educated, learn the social values and confine the urge to smoke because it’s considered wrong and unsanitary. Huck doesn’t want to live with them because their unnecessary rigidity of their lifestyles. “living in a house all the time, and everything so regular.” Widow Douglass owns slave is a contradiction of being a Christian which points out the aspect of hypocrisy. It’s ironic that “they brought the slaves in and had prayers, t...
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... “The preaching was all about brotherly love,” but they don’t even show any amiable attitude toward each other but keep the feud everlasting. Their method of promoting brotherly love in the church is totally hypocritical because they are fighting each other savagely the moment they get out of the church, seeing that they are just pretending to be sincere and this exposes their most hypocritical sides.
In conclusion, in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Twain satirically portrays organized religion and society's morals throughout the novel. People that Huck and Jim met along on the way regardless of the Grangerford and shepherdson families duck and dauphin disguise themselves and keep true identities of greed, prejudice and hypocrisy hidden. Hypocrisy, the one of the major themes in the novel, transpires the ugliest side of human beings and exposes the brutal society.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn should be read as a satire because the novel makes fun of Southern culture in the 19th-century with the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, and ridicule. By mocking the South Twain gives an alternative to improve humanity by people doing the opposite of what he is mocking. The alternative for the way that the Grangerfords act is for people to not be so focused on material things; this is shown through the exaggeration of what Huck and the Grangerfords see as fancy. Twain’s alternative to this feud is suggested through Sofia Grangerford when she runs away with a Shepardson. She chose love of killing, which is what Twain thinks everyone should do. Twain’s alternative to the ignorance expressed through satirizing the King, the Duke, and the people that they scam is to still be trusting, but not so trusting that you end up getting scammed because of it; and to be modest, because even if one thinks they are above everyone they might be below everyone. By satirizing the mob that is after Colonel Sherburn Twain’s alternative to “improve humanity” is for people to form their own opinions and not just follow the crowd. Twain uses satire to point out the foolishness of the United States in the mid-19th century. Twain satirizes certain parts of
Over the 129 years for which the book has been in print, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been regarded with much controversy, for many different reasons. As it has progressed, the subject of this controversy has been almost constantly changing. This essay will explore some of the claims and explanations of the controversy, as well as a discussion on whether the book is even that controversial. While everyone is entitled to their own opinion about this novel, The main complaints seem to revolve around three core topics: Twain’s portrayal of Jim and other blacks, The extensive use of the racial slurs and racism, and the final chapters of the book itself.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain is about the great adventures that Huck finn has with his slave Jim on the Missouri River. The story tells not only about the adventures Huck has, but more of a deeper understanding of the society he lives in. Twain had Huck born into a low class society of white people; his father was a drunken bum and his mother was dead. He was adopted by the widow Douglas who tried to teach him morals, ethics, and manners that she thought fit in a civilized society. Huck never cared for these values and ran away to be free of them. During Huck’s adventure with Jim he unknowingly realized that he didn't agree with society’s values and could have his own assumptions and moral values. Twain uses this realization to show how the civilized and morally correct social values that was introduced to Huck was now the civilized and morally contradicting values.
The characters encountered in Huckleberry Finn do not have very high moral standards. Many of them think and act very irrationally. In Chapter six, the newly appointed judge in town denied the widow and Judge Thatcher custody of Huck, despite Pap’s abusive, alcohol dependant history. Here the author criticized the knowledge and decisions of society’s authority figures.
In the novel Huck Finn, the author repeatedly uses satire to ridicule the insanity of racial ignorance and inequity of the time period. With his masterful use of role reversal, irony, and the obvious portrayal of double standards, Twain exemplifies the injustices of different races contrasting them with example after example of counter-argument shown through the friendship and adventures of Jim and Huck together.
In the appropriately titled novel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", by author, Mark Twain, a young boy, named, Huckleberry Finn's life is completely changed. The story is basically that, Huck is sent to live with his strict relatives that try to conform him into someone he isn't, but, sequentially ends up traveling down the Mississippi River, with an escaped slave, Jim. As the novel progresses, Jim and Huck develop an extremely close friendship, which makes him change his views on slavery. Despite numerous chances, Huck never turns Jim in, because of his new outlook on slavery. Although slavery is a main theme in the book, it is not the only one. Because, author, Mark Twain creates a social critique by juxtaposing the idea of freedom against conformity, civilization, and social order. The reader can comprehend that although Jim is clearly looking for freedom, Huck is also, and desperately. Even though Huck is clearly not a slave, he still feels trapped with inescapable restrictions, and limitations, his new guardians and society has placed upon him. It is hard for Huck to conform to a way of life filled with hypocrisies. The novel as a whole reveals Huck’s resistance to conformity in a culture filled with religious hypocrisies. Many characters that affect Huck's freedom, like, his father, Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, Aunt Polly and Sally, the duke and the King constrain Huck to the confinement of his freedom, forcing him to begin his ultimate adventure.
Mark Twain is phenomenal at subtly implementing his own beliefs into his writing, and into the heads of his methodical characters. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain implies many themes from that time period into his writing. As he does so, he plants one of the most important themes into the head of the young character of Huckleberry Finn. That theme is moral and government laws. This theme drives the story, creates personal conflict, and makes Huck see the world through new eyes. Twain did this by using one character to influence Huck many times throughout the novel, by showing Huck what morals are good and bad from an honest man’s view. Twain chose to make this character one who has no sense of hatred, but only a shear want for freedom. What Twain has put into the text made Huck evolve; it was the kind hearted Jim. Mark Twain streamed many believes though Jim to Huck; this is how and what is being streamed.
In his novel, The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain applies his thoughts upon societal hypocrisy by using the characters to convey their religious entitlement as a societal norm rather than focusing on the true moral teachings that Christianity implies. Throughout the book, Twain adopts a sentimental yet humorous tone to portray the characters’ ironic behavior towards biblical teachings and their reason for going completely against them.
Mark Twain’s masterpiece The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through much criticism and denunciation has become a well-respected novel. Through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy, Huckleberry Finn, Twain illustrates the controversy of racism and slavery during the aftermath of the Civil War. Since Huck is an adolescent, he is vulnerable and greatly influenced by the adults he meets during his coming of age. His expedition down the Mississippi steers him into the lives of a diverse group of inhabitants who have conflicting morals. Though he lacks valid morals, Huck demonstrates the potential of humanity as a pensive, sensitive individual rather than conforming to a repressive society. In these modes, the novel places Jim and Huck on pedestals where their views on morality, learning, and society are compared.
Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn explores the morality of Huckleberry Finn, a daring, young teen growing up in Missouri, who rafts down the Mississippi River with a runaway slave. While Huck travels, he is met with many adventures and problems that test his morality such as deciding whether or not to turn Jim, a runaway slave, into Miss Watson, Jim’s owner. When met with challenges, Huck constantly makes the righteous choice. Yet, because Huck lacks a civil upbringing, he never recognizes his morality and believes himself to be a degenerate even though he demonstrates sound virtue.
In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the nature of individual and societal morality is a pivotal theme to Huck’s storyline and the lens through which he views Southern culture. Through the storyline, Huck is introduced to multiple renditions of moral codes from pap, the widow, Tom, and Jim. Additionally, Huck is also given an ideal seat to view the motives of the multiple mobs and how they interact as a part of society. In Huck’s narrative, an individual 's morality is directly linked to personal benefit being valued above all else and this shapes how and where Huck applies his moral code. Despite this, Huck is able to cultivate his sense of moral responsibility. Moreover, societal morality is even less developed than personal and
Mark Twain once described his novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as “a struggle between a sound mind and a deformed conscience”. Throughout the novel, Huck wrestles with the disparity between his own developing morality and the twisted conscience of his society. In doing so, he becomes further distanced from society, both physically and mentally, eventually abandoning it in order to journey to the western frontier. By presenting the disgust of Huck, an outsider, at the state of society, Mark Twain is effectively able to critique the intolerance and hypocrisy of the Southern South. In doing so, Twain asserts that in order to exist as a truly moral being, one must escape from the chains of a diseased society.
Another theme that is dealt with in this book is slavery. In fact, slavery is one of the main topics that has been frequently debated in regards to Huckleberry Finn since it was first published. Twain himself was vehemently anti-slavery and Huckleberry Finn can in many ways be seen as an allegory for why slavery is wrong. Twain uses Jim, a slave who is one of the main characters, as a way of showing the human side of a slave. Everything about Jim is presented through emotions: Jim runs away because Miss Watson was going to sell him South and separate him from his family; Jim is trying to become free so he can buy his family's freedom; and Jim takes care of Huck and protects him on their journey downriver in a very materialistic manner.
Society establishes their own rules of morality, but would they be accepted in these days?
The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an extremely important work of literature that addresses many world problems such as: poverty, race relations, and our role in society. Although some of these issues are not as prevalent today as they were in the 1880s, the novel still sends an important satirical message to anyone who is willing hear this story. This essay will analyze Huckleberry Finn and its relation to society today; the main issues that are addressed include: Huckleberry’s growth as a moral and upstanding person, race relations between African-Americans and Caucasian-Americans including Huck’s relation to Jim and the issue of slavery, the role of society and an analysis of Huck’s role in society and society’s role in Huckleberry’s personality.