Hypocrisy In Huck Finn

The most significant example of religious hypocrisy is the satirical idea of how a Christian believer owns slaves. Ms. Watson is a committed believer of Christianity, a prevalent irony in the idea that she owns slaves, as Christians believe that God provided all with equality and freedom. Ms. Watson not only owns slaves but she treats them with poorly, as said by Jim, “‘Ole missus—dat's Miss Watson—she pecks on me all de time, en treats me poorty rough” (111). Jim, Ms. Watson’s slave, tells Huck of the rough treatment he receives from Ms. Watson. Widow Douglas, Ms. Watson’s sister, tells Huck the story of Moses from the Bible. This paints a juxtaposition of her sister’s, as well as herself, flawed thinking, as the story of Moses is one about people’s freedom. Even thougn Widow Douglas does nWidow Douglas is even more of hypocritical women when she disapproves of Huck smoking and “takes a snuff herself” (). As well as the fact that she

Huck begins to see the hypocrisy between the family feud as they begin to bring guns to church. For a white man to commit such an amoral act of possibly disrupting peace in a tranquil community is something greatly satirized by Twain indicating that all whites no matter their class or wealth have all committed amoral acts, some to a higher degree than others. Huck thinks to himself while seeing the families fight says “It made me so sick I most fell out of the tree…I wished I hadn’t ever come ashore that night to see such things” (152). The family feud that has lasted for years had only caused pain for both families, something long forgotten but still continued satirizes the way that slaves are abused. The idea of white supremacy with whites blaming blacks for their color cannot see that they are the ones committing these acts as much as the