Tuesday, March 5, 2019
The Adventures of Hucklberry Finn Satire
The author, Mark two, uses sarcasm against religion, political science, peoples ignorance, and society in general. Throughout the novel, we accumulate people whose live were ruined by alcoholism. huckabacks novice is a drunken, abusive fuss and Twain satirizes the consumption of alcohol and the cause it has on people. huckaback quotes, Pap he hadnt been seen for more than a year, and that was comfortable for me I didnt want to see him no more.He utilise 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 exhaust nigger there from Ohio (35) Mark Twain quotes Pap to satirize twain the government and racism. Pap represents the close-minded, southern whites and how they felt close remedy blacks.He mocks how the government has outlawed slaver y in the northern states and how the southern states couldnt do anything about it. Slavery was a nonher issue that Twain touched on. He enters the bitter realm of social satire and their beliefs on the issue of free slaves, almost 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 information to do right when its carksome to do right and it aint no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? (116) He feels guilty for back up 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. After the shell with the King and the Duke with the Wilks, Huck is glad to see Jim Of course when they got to snoring we had a long gabble, and I told Jim everything (188). Twain shows that Jim should have a better disembodied spirit than to be separated from his wife and children he loves, and to be forced to function for people who humiliate him.Through his use of satire, Twain illustrates the major themes of the novel. People at that date treated servants terribly. Huck himself was racialist when Miss Watson asks if anybody got hurt and Huck replies No maam just a nigger (34). Fin eachy, the use of racist terminology throughout the book showed how Jim and slaves were treated. The people that they come in take see nothing more than a servant of Jim. When tom 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 stop them till theyre ransomed, it means that we keep them till theyre dead. (12) In this segment of the novel, Twain uses satire to salute that even though something may be truly wrong, if civilization or society adopts it to be true, then it is believed. Religion is mavin of the key victims of Twains satire throughout the novel. This satire i s no more apparent then when Hucks guardian, the leave behind Douglas, preaches to him about Moses.Huck didnt think very much of her lecture Here 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 make their vivification by swindling people out of their money. When they are eventually caught, they pay for their sins by being tarred and feathered.Huck expresses his thoughts on the subject by saying it was a dread thing to see. Human beings can be awful cruel to one another. (294) through this event, Twain shows that crooks and criminals arent the only ones that can be cruel. The ring that considers themselves to be civilized and opposing cruel acts when actually they commit much(prenominal) acts 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 manner (pg. 132), clearly shows his readership that though the con-men and townspeople know enough to have hear of Shakespeare and even recognize some lines, , for in reality they are sensual of high society. Twain uses satire to express ignorance in society when Tom Sawyer says Because it aint in the books so thats wherefore (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.
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