Religious Hypocrisy and Racism in Huckleberry Finn In Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, a very powerful and potent message lies behind the lighthearted and humorous storyline. Twain uses wit and humor in Huckleberry Finn to satirize and expose elements of society that he believed needed reform, namely religious hypocrisy and racial prejudice. ... Perhaps more prevalent than religious hypocrisy is Twain's satire of racism, primarily through the use of Jim and a few other black characters. ... Aunt Sally and other characters are guilty of racial prejudice. ... Huckleberry Finn attacks...

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One of the most effective ways Mark Twain represents the notion that the idea of slavery is hypocritical is through his use of characters such as Miss Watson and Widow Douglas. ... Another character that helps to support Twain's views regarding slavery is Pap, Huck's father. ... The white people call the people of color "niggers" and Twain makes the black characters seem to be less intelligent and all around inferior to the whites. ... They all have the potential to possess human emotion and to succeed in life and Twain supports this idea in Huckleberry Finn....

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This topic is illustrated in the book Huckleberry Finn. ... Watson, is also portrayed as a good, nice, and well-behaved character. ... Watson is shown as a good character, Mark Twain doesn't point out in the beginning that she feels any sympathy for the slaves. ... Watson in the beginning as a character that keeps herself from reasoning and goes along with everything that other people tell her. ... The Duke and the King also proved to be bad characters because they tried to take away many from children who just experienced deaths of close related people. ...

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The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is full of satires. ... Also they way Huck, a realist character, always disagree with Tom, a romantic character, symbolized satire on romanticism. ... Tom is a romantic character so when he said he has read all the books, he was referring to all the books during the romanticism period, and Twain was saying through Huck's perspective that romantics are foolish and he believed that romanticism was an unnecessary movement. ...

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In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain used Huck and Jim as the protagonists to show the contradiction of the racism in the American society. ... Making two characters who have different race meet in the secluded island, the author starts to make a comment on the racism. ...

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