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Examples Of Satire In Huckleberry Finn

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Throughout this novel the author used satire elements to create an emotional response from the reader. By using these elements the foolishness of society with many of its individuals is revealed by irony, humor, and the exaggeration the author has placed to impact the reader of the reality of many of the circumstances in relation to the world. Judge Thatcher took the responsibility of handling all of Finn’s six thousand dollars to assure he wouldn’t spend it all. Finn’s dad is a drunk who only wants Finn under his custody to receive his money for alcohol. When he doesn’t find the money with Finn he charges at Judge Thatcher while he is drunk and threatens him to summit the money or else face the law.“ The Judge and the widow went to law to get to the court to take me away from him and let one of them be my guardian; but it was a new judge that has just come, and he didn’t know the old man; so he said to the courts mustn't interfere and separate families if they could help it; said he’d druther not to take a child away from its father.”(Twain 22) Under the law system the new judge gave Finn’s father the custody only for being his biological father however he didn’t …show more content…

What is amusing about this war is how both families are willingly shooting at each other without a reason on how it started just for the reason of the feud they continue on killing. “Did you want to kill him Buck?” “Well, I bet I did.” “ What did he do to you?” “Him? He never done nothing to me.” “Well, then what did you want to kill him for?” Why, nothing- only it’s on account of the feud.”(104) Instead of sparing the lives of their family members they would still pursue their enemy targets on the behalf of the feud. It will be until the very end when everyone involved in this feud will see how pointless their misunderstanding was at the moment the fatalities are too much to

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Twain extends his satire to the moment surrounding the funeral service of Peter Wilks. The dark humor of the funeral scene is obvious with the actions of the undertaker and the interruption of the dog catching rat. When the service is interrupted by the noise of the dog, the undertaker tells the people at the funeral that "He had a rat!" Huck's says "there warn't no more popular man in town than what that undertaker was" which is another example of satire directed at the subject of death. The scene in which Mary Jane is saddened by the unfortunate situation of the slave family, forces Huck to act based on both his instincts and his conscience.

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Throughout Huckleberry Finn, the author Mark Twain showcases his beliefs about religion through satire and satirical properties. Mark Twain himself was a Christian, so his exposure of satire to religion wasn't out of disrespect. He satirizes throughout the book the fact that many people during the 1800’s did not practice what they preach. Instead, they were doing it for show. He also satirizes religion to show how hypocritical and absurd it could be.

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Before the Civil War, slavery was a very popular practice in the southern United States. Though not many people actually had slaves, most southerners defended it because one day owning a slave was the “American Dream.” In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses satire to reveal the greed, religious hypocrisy, and gullibility among the pre-Civil War south. Twain uses satire to demonstrate how greed can leave a person with less than what they began with.

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The film The Princess Bride, directed by Rob Reiner, is an adaptation of the John Goldman book of the same name and a cult-classic that is often watched for enjoyment. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, on the other hand, is a very common part of high schools’ curriculum and rarely consumed for its entertainment factor. Despite the reasons behind why these two works are commonly known today being incongruent, both of them are pieces of satire, having general genre satire with some social commentary in there, as well. Even though the amount of focus placed on social commentary in Huckleberry Finn greatly outweighs that of Princess Bride, they both commentate on the frivolousness of religion, the blind faith people place

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Huckleberry Finn timed write Satire is one device that is expertly used to portray what was and was not socially acceptable in the time period throughout the novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain. In the beginning of the novel Huck and Tom decide to pilfer Jim’s hat from his head and deposit it on a limb of the tree shading him. “Afterward Jim said the witches bewitched him and put him in a trance, and rode him all over the state, and then set him under the trees again, and hung his hat on a limb to show who done it” (6). This is satirical for the audience because they are provided with two sides of the story and can see the extent of exaggeration and superstition of Jim.

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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

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Satire is the technique of using a variety of methods to make something look foolish or silly in order to point out faults. The novel The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain is about a boy who has a alcoholic father, Huck makes a decision to run away and seeks a runaway slave, Jim. Throughout his journey he learns more about the stereotypical judgement on blacks. Huck finds no difference between Jim and himself and risks his life to free Jim. Mark Twain satirizes institutions using Horatian because he wants to seek social change.

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American writer, Mark Twain, in his satirical novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, depicts the religious flaws in American society during the 19th century. Aspects such as the morals, hypocrisy, and the principles people live by are constantly questioned and reflected upon by the voice of Huck. Twain utilizes irony, humor, and religious satire to convey how hypocritical, absurd, and comical religion was in society at the time, in hopes of encouraging people to change the way they practice religion. Twain begins his ridicule on religion in the first chapter when he describes the countless rituals Huck has to encounter in the Widow Douglas’ household, such as “[waiting] for the widow to tuck her head and grumble over the victuals, though there weren’t really nothing the matter with them.”

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Saving the Modern World: One Satire at a Time There are so many problems that the world faces today, some more urgent than others. Some individuals choose to focus on the newest fashion style or celebrity breakup rather than focus on one that could bring about the doom of a nation. The use of satire in great literary works, television entertainment, and comics is an effective way to enlighten the world on the difficulties it faces.

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Mark Twain uses satire to portray different issues that were going on during the time period. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, author Mark Twain uses Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer to represent romanticism and realism. Doing so formed the characters into two drastically different persons. Mark Twain uses satirical elements to contrast the two main characters in their personalities and views. Tom Sawyer is a child who is blinded with fictional literature and the worlds view on slaves.

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Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses satire to denounce many ideas and institutions that he believes are problems in society. One such idea that Twain satirizes, is Romanticism’s unrealistic quality. In this novel, Twain’s sarcastic tone sends a humorous yet serious message through his attacking of Romanticism’s impracticality. By using knaves and fools, dramatic irony, and burlesque, Twain exposes the absurd principles in romantic literature.

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“Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.” (BrainyQuote). This quote by Molly Ivins properly describes those who use satire. Satire is used to indirectly criticize something through sarcasm and irony. The use of satire has been questioned for its effectiveness for centuries.

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Hypocricy and Blind Faith Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn took place in the eighteen hundreds when religion and reputation were dominant in peoples everyday lives. It was very rare for someone to believe something different than everyone else. In Twain 's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer and Huck appear to be very different, but their actions, descriptions, and dialogue bring them together to symbolize society in order to show the blind conformity and hypocrisy that humans often display.

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A sense of inability to improve and expand life status and condition leads, inevitably, to the mental incapability to reason and maintain an adequate lifestyle. Pap Finn, consistently caught in the influence and negative perceptions of a self-made societal position, struggles to accept Huckleberry’s transformation into an individual of class. Pap’s lack of compliance and misinterpretation of intentions leads to the belief of Huck becoming “better’n your father,” as due to the gradual attainment of knowledge, and surpassing himself in societal position “because he can’t [read]” (Twain 31). Mark Twain instructs, through the depiction of the character of Pap Finn, how individuals fail to sustain a substantial way of life as a result of a prior determinant of social class and perception of subordination to others.

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Mark Twain's Use of Satire in Huckleberry Finn Throughout his pieces of literature, the famous American author Mark Twain portrays his personal views of society using satire and irony in his stories. He makes fun of broken parts in the American society relentlessly and makes sure the readers understand how outrageous some acts were during the early-to-mid 1800s. Twain seems to target specific aspects in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn such as how young people could be conflicted between morality and legality, the loss of self-respect for money, and the effects of herd mentality. He has an interesting approach at giving the reader insight, but his main ideas for the theme shine through and are clearly depicted.

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