Satirical Nature In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

Noelle Davidson

Mrs. Wachell

English 11 College Prep

25 January 2016

The Satirical Nature in Huckleberry Finn Ever since literature has existed, there has been some arrays of mockery. Whether it be a criticism about a person, an action, or the way people live, there has especially been satire. In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, encounters plenty of people and situations that are easy targets to ridicule. Throughout the text, Mark Twain satirizes religious views, hypocrisy, and romantic ideals to expose the real human flaws in southern society. Religion and faith has been an important lifestyle in southern society. Mark Twain uses characters such as Miss Watson, Widow Douglas, and

The infamous Tom Sawyer and his gang of robbers contributed greatly to satirizing the concepts of romanticism through their use of rules and ideals in their gang. Ben Rogers, one of members of the gang, asks if they should kill the women when rob the carriages to which Tom Sawyer responds," Kill the women? No; nobody ever saw anything in the books like that. You fetch them to the cave, and you 're always as polite as pie to them; and by and by they fall in love with you, and never want to go home anymore " (p.8). This response displays that Mark Twain is satirizing the romantic hero. The romantic hero, usually is the honorable one, who isn 't flawed, and seems to always get the girl. But Twain makes fun of this by having Tom be a robber instead of a hero. This also conveys that anyone could be anything and visions of the romantic hero are shockingly unrealistic. Next, Tom, Huck, and the gang are out on their first robbery when they hear about a group of rich Arabs coming by their town. Huck, thinking he might see these Arabs and rob them says, "But there warn 't no Spaniards and A-rabs, and there warn 't no camels nor no elephants. It warn 't anything but a Sunday-school picnic, and only a primer class at that " (p.11). This statement states that the romantic hero is a false hope. In most romantic hero oriented novels, the hero usually fights its enemies and has this elaborate plan that turns out fine. But in reality, as shown by, Tom and his gang, that the idea if Spaniards and A-rabs with elephants and more, wasn 't even a possible scenario. Tom Sawyer and his band of amateur robbers contributed heavily in the satire of Twain 's