sathf Satire in Adventures of Huck Finn :: Adventures Huckleberry Huck Finn Essays

Satire in Adventures of huckaback Finn   The dominant tone of this work is satire. Twain pokes fun at many of the aspects of Southern life in the nineteenth century (including slavery and feuds), and several characters as well.  His fiery attitude about the ills of society shows itself from the first page of this book.           I think that one of the main themes in this novel is the conflict among the societys good and bad. huck believed that a person was good if they were educated, well read, religiously trained, and had the ability to follow rules. This, of course, is not the avowedly nature of goodness, and a key element in Twains satire. In fact, Huck, who is one of the only good characters in the novel, believes good is based on the elements of dangers which reflexion him every day, and due to this dicotomy, does not believe he is good. This becomes painfully evident when Huck meets the Gregfords. The Gregfords are an obvious simile for pure evil. Though they get under ones skin a temporal glow to them, after all, they are rich and aristocratic. However their misdeeds flow contrary to societys label of good . He labels them as good, though after he hears their story behind their feud, he realizes that they are not quite as good as he had believed. This shows the tumultuous journey between the good and evil occuring in Hucks mind.           The most clear occasion of this is when Huck dresses as a girl to steal things from the neighborhood store. On a nonliteral level, this shows Twains alternate sexual preference (Freud testifyed this out in The Human Mind, Second Edition) -- he is living vicariously through his creations. Twain uses the visage of Huck as a girl to ameliorate it against the societys evil perspective, in an attempt to popularize these acts. The bifurcation between his personal good and societys good is a key point in the book, and a unive rsal theme which is best observed in this scene.           Another important scene which goes along with this same theme was the scene with Huck Finn and his gang in the cave in the end of the second