Examples Of Satire In Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn Satire Essay

"I have a religion--but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you, will feed you--I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck." - (Letter from Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemons to Orion Clemens, 19-20 October 1865.) In the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn it shows some of how Twain feels about the matter of religion in the way Mark Twain uses a variety of satire including times when he is mocking religion due to the repetitiveness of Jim and Huck’s superstitions and other instances in his novel. Huck Finn uses a lot of sarcasm to ridicule religion. This and

Watson does which could be symbolic towards how Mark Twain feels about religion. This goes with the quote earlier from Twain about how he doesn’t put much stock into his god

Moreover there's more that shows Twain's viewpoints is when Huck states "Then she would tell me about the bad place, and I would say how I wished I was there." (Twain 2) this furthermore goes along with the idea that Huck is a symbol of Mark Twain with Huck's sarcasm towards Mrs. Watson who he doesn’t like whatsoever. With Twain's obvious displease of organized religion, it shows how he could've attacked towards the idea of religion

Similarly later in the novel when we meet the con-men known as the King and Duke they persuade a town that is very religious to "help them convert Huck and Jim" who they say are pirates. "Blessing the people and praising them and thanking them for being so good to the poor pirates away of there" (Twain 100) All of this mocks their beliefs and devotion to God as well as shows that Twain feels that people of God are easily deceived and led astray. This is an obvious weakness of religion in this sense as well as example in the

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn also helps show this in many examples. The Huckleberry Finn book does do a good job in showing Twain's point of view of the concept of religion as well as Christianity and the bible. Allison Ensor helps drive the point very well of Twain is very critical of things people believe in