The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Tone Analysis

Tone is an important part of writing and is the way an author expresses his or her attitude. Twain uses a moralistic and mocking tone in his writing; whereas, Albee uses a brutal and hilarious tone. George and Martha spend the whole play mercilessly attacking each other, "I swear…if you existed I'd divorce you" (Albee 1.144). Albee allows the characters to say horrible things without reluctance. Most of the play can be viewed as a dark emotional wasteland; the characters are brutal with one another and have no wall they won’t break down. At times, the softer side of the relationship can be seen. The gentleness of George nearing the end of the play contrasts well with the dark emotional wasteland by showing that once the couple faced reality, they could

By the end of the play, George, Martha, Nick and Honey are exposed to themselves and one another. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the whole story is told by Huck Finn; Twain writes the way Huck speaks to introduce the readers to his character. By writing the book from Huck’s point of view, it shows his level of education, personality and social background. Twain uses Huck to demonstrate that even an uneducated child can open his mind to accepting a black man as his equal. The tone is ironic since Huck's voice is essentially serious even during the most comic parts of the novel, and remains uncomprehending of the moral importance of almost all of the most serious issues. "I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking—thinking how good it was all the happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me, all the time, in the day, and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a floating along, talking, and singing, and