Huckleberry Finn - Satire

Throughout his novel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Mark Twain uses satire to emphasize what he finds especially erroneous in the world. His favorite human failures include so-called morality and individualism as he satirizes them often throughout the course of Jim and Huck's journey. One case appears at the very beginning of the story - when the new judge awards Pap full custody of Huck. Twain is poking fun at the judge's naivety at this …

…well and then the criminals get away with twice as much. This blend of vengeance and gullibility make for an amusing chapter, but lurking right below the surface of this humor lie's an accusation of more human failure. To the untrained reader, Twain's work may come across witty and playful for the most part - which it is. Hovering behind many passages in the novel however, are the satirical motivations that Twain is known for.