The Satire of Religion Through Ideas on Slavery

In Mark Twain's novel "The Adventure of The Huckleberry Finn", Twain considers religion to be a social problem affecting people's decision-making and lifestyle. Through the eyes of the 13-year-old Huckfin, he enjoyed organized religion and slavery. This irony and hypocrisy that he brought to the reader can understand his view on these two themes. Throughout the novel, readers have witnessed Huck 's struggle against religion and the growth of free thought with many trials.

Some of the social problems caused by Twain's use of satire include social problems related to slavery, religion, morality and class prejudice. As the reader must face the need for social change, the superficial nature of humor created by satirical and open-mindedness has been opened. Twain's irony is closely related to personal, social institution and social embarrassment and hypocrisy. Huck and Jim are faced with corruption of these defective social systems and concepts of ideal ethics. Therefore Twain is ironically creating a view that apparently humorous travel actually represents social criticism. In addition to being funny and humorous at this superficial level, the sarcasm gives serious insight into human nature and society.

Ironic is a form of writing that writers criticize or ridicule certain matters such as social, institutional, political, religious, educational. But this is not a direct criticism. Satire often explains a completely different situation, but mentioning indirect similarity to what you know to notice what you are criticizing. In a very famous satirical work, writer Jonathan Swift wrote an article that suggested that poor people in his country should sell their children richly as a source of food. Of course, his argument is to criticize his society. There are people living in a poor environment where it is difficult to feed themselves and their children. More and refuse to share their wealth. In his satirical article Swift suggested that they also took the children because the rich took everything from poor people.

People can believe that people who believe religious beliefs are cruel and inhumane for his compatriots? ("Huck Finn: satirical treasure") Immoral values ​​("Huck Finn: Ironic Treasure"). Although Miss Watson and Phelps are depicted as "good Christians", they believe that they are susceptible to society and that slavery is not only accepted but also preferred ("Hack Fern: Ironic treasure" )) In addition to slavery, Mark Twain ridiculed the religion of southern society through a malicious dispute between Granger Foz and Sheffields. When the two families went to church, the men took a gun, "Put on the wall" (109)