The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Essay Mark Twain, well acclaimed author, writes the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the attempt to satirize society's negligence towards race during the 1800’s. The plot follows a teenage boy, Huck Finn, along with an escaped slave, Jim, whom Huck helps in freeing. Throughout the novel Huck faces an inner conflict that objectifies the moral conditioning of society, while his father, Pap antagonizes the government for it’s unjustful decree to race. Twain satirizes the moral conditioning of society through a tongue and cheek approach where the use of satirical devices such as stereotypes and irony are employed. Huck, a white American being brought up through a time of racial impoverishment, …show more content…
From a political approach, Pap becomes drunk and exaggerates the disruptiveness of the government's ideals of race and blacks treatment as animals when actually he is acting like one himself,” It was ‘lection day, and I was just about to go out and vote myself if I warn’t to drunk to get there; but when they told me there was a state in this country where they’d led that nigger vote, I drawed out.” Pap points out his drunkenness is an belowment of a black man, and that his absence of voting states a revolt against the unjust government principles of discrimination. Twain’s use of irony suggest a humorous undertake through Pap’s animal like behaviour,”...never noticed where his old limber legs was taking him to, so he went head over heels...his speech was the hottest kind of language…”. This exemplifies Pap’s angernment towards society, but creates a tongue and cheek effect on the reader because Twain is comparing the ranks of blacks in equivalence to Pap’s foolish actions based on his arguments of voting. Comprehensively the utilization of irony creates a juxtaposed view of the southern whites implications of slavery in the south and Pap’s concision to a black man. The irony is found through Pap’s behavior of contradicting the man who was of color, when he himself is of belittlement. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, takes a satirical approach in revealing the moral conditioning of society and their racial constrictions. The use of stereotypes employed by Jim exposes racial hypocrisy by criticizing the notion of slavery while unveiling Huck’s inner conflict in societies teachings. Supplementary to invalidate stereotypes, Twain utilizes irony to mock the government’s racial