The Adventures of Hucklberry Finn Satire

The author, Mark Twain, utilises badinage against religion, government, peoples ignorance, and order in general. passim the novel, we meet people whose live were ruined by intoxicantism. Hucks father is a drunken, abusive father and Twain guys the consumption of alcohol and the effects it has on people. Huck quotes, Pap he hadnt been pull inn for more(prenominal) than a year, and that was comfortable for me I didnt want to see him no more.He uptaked to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me (13) Twain is satirizing drunken adults and what it does to their kids and the people surrounding them. Hucks father also had opinions of his own. Oh yes this is a wonderful govment, wonderful. Why looky here, there was a expel nigger there from Ohio (35) Mark Twain quotes Pap to satirize both the government and racism. Pap represents the close-minded, southern whites and how they felt about free blacks.He mocks how the government has outlawed slavery in the n orthern states and how the southern states couldnt do everything about it. Slavery was another proceeds that Twain touched(p) on. He enters the bitter realm of social ridicule and their beliefs on the issue of free slaves, al close to to the point where it was unethical. A moment captured in chapter 16 describes when Huck realized how serious the consequence of the situation was. Well whats the use of learning to do right when its troublesome to do right and it aint no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is alone the same? (116) He feels vile for helping Jim to freedom, but realizes that if he turned Jim in, he would feel just the same. He mocks the society for believing that it was so evil to help slaves to freedom. afterwards the event with the King and the Duke with the Wilks, Huck is glad to see Jim Of course when they got to breathe we had a abundant gabble, and I told Jim everything (188). Twain shows that Jim should get hold of a give way life than to be separated fr om his wife and children he loves, and to be obligate to work for people who humiliate him.Through his use of satire, Twain illustrates the major themes of the novel. sight at that time treated servants terribly. Huck himself was racist when Miss Watson asks if anybody got damage and Huck replies No maam just a nigger (34). Finally, the use of racist terminology throughout the book showed how Jim and slaves were treated. The people that they come in contact see nothing more than a servant of Jim. When tom tur linchpin has a theory as to the meaning of the word ransomed without any doubts, all of the boys agree with this meaning of the word. But peraps if we keep them till theyre ransomed, it meat that we keep them till theyre dead. (12) In this segment of the novel, Twain uses satire to demonstrate that even though something may be truly wrong, if civilization or society adopts it to be true, whence it is believed. Religion is one of the key victims of Twains satire throughout the novel. This satire is no more app bent then when Hucks guardian, the Widow Douglas, preaches to him about Moses.Huck didnt think very much of her lecture present she was a-bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody, being gone, you see (3) Twain uses Huck to exhibit his objection to the faith that civilized society places towards religion. During Huck and Jims journey, they encounter two men who refer to themselves as the Duke and the King. These characters prepare their living by swindling people out of their money. When they are eventually caught, they stand for their sins by being tarred and feathered.Huck expresses his thoughts on the subject by saying it was a dreadful thing to see. Human beings can be awful barbarian to one another. (294) through this event, Twain shows that crooks and criminals arent the only ones that can be cruel. The crowd that considers themselves to be civilized and opposing cruel acts when actually they impart such ac ts themselves. The chapters on the Royal Nonesuch are the climax of satire in this story. First Twain presents Hamlets soliloquy, which even in its first lines, To be, or not to be that is the bare bodkin/ that makes calamity of so long life (pg. 132), clearly shows his readership that though the con-men and townspeople know enough to have heard of Shakespeare and even recognize some lines, , for in reality they are ignorant of high society. Twain uses satire to express ignorance in society when Tom Sawyer says Because it aint in the books so thats why (9). This shows that people believe everything they read in books when books are most of the time opinionated. Twain fills Huckleberry Finn with satire examples throughout the story.