Mark Twain criticizes society in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through literary allusions and analogies that reflect useless feuds and unvalidated murders. Twain utilizes literary allusions to reflect the feuds in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the feuds between the North and the South after the Civil War. In the novel, Huck comes across the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons, two families who have been killing each other for 30 years for a reason forgotten to time. Also, both families have a child that runs off with one another to marry each other, despite the brutal bickering between the two households. Twain uses a literary allusion to William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to criticize society’s disagreements over a topic that