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Essay / Huckleberry Finn's satirical depiction of religion and religion...
Mark Twain's masterpiece, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," is considered by many to be the greatest American novel ever writing, which incorporates contrasting themes around a central plot to emphasize objectives. humor and insight. It is a typical satire that uses humor to criticize the hypocrisy of "civilized" society and arouse people's credulity. In "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", the Grangerford and Shepherdson families who were spiteful towards each other, the pious widow who owned slaves, and the duck and dolphin who disguise themselves as members of the upper classes are hypocrites just like John Proctor, in "Crucible", who is seen as a moral and respected man on the surface, but who actually betrayed his wife and had a relationship of adulation with Abilgail, and these judges who claimed to be religious and judicial but killed innocent people in order to keep the reputation and position in society The widow Douglass, the pious woman with Miss Watson who adjusts Huck's life with strict etiquette and wants to teach Huck all the things that his father neglected. eat on time when Douglass rings the bell and has to wait for her to lower her head and recover a little Huck is forced to wear elaborate clothes with a collar all the time, to educate himself, to learn the. social values and to limit the desire to smoke because it is considered bad and unhealthy. Huck doesn't want to live with them because of the unnecessary rigidity of their lifestyle. “living in a house all the time, and everything is so regular.” The Widow Douglass owns a slave, it is a contradiction of being a Christian which highlights the aspect of hypocrisy. It is ironic that "they brought the slaves and said prayers, middle of paper... "The preaching was all about brotherly love" but they don't even show any kind attitude towards but keep the quarrel eternal. Their method of promoting brotherly love in the Church is totally hypocritical because they fight wildly as soon as they leave the Church, seeing that they are just pretending to be sincere and this exposes their most hypocritical sides. In conclusion, in Twain's Marc Huckleberry Finn, Twain satirically depicts organized religion and the morals of society throughout the novel. The people Huck and Jim met along the way, independent of the Grangerford and Shepherdson families, disguise themselves and hide their true identities of greed, prejudice, and hypocrisy. Hypocrisy, one of the major themes of the novel, shines through the ugliest side of human beings and exposes the brutal society..