The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by
Mark Twain (Questions
with Answers)
Mark
Twain's humor in The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn.
Mark
Twains has been considered to be one
of the greatest humourists in the world.
His humour assumes multidimensionality
of range and character in the novel
Hucklbey Finn. Novelist's comic vision
is colored by humaniterianism and broad
sympathy. His humour is characterized
by restraint, control, sympathy and
benovolence. He doesn't single out an
individual in order to ridicule him
or insult him. Mark Twain's humour in
Huckberry Finn verges more and more
on tragic.
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For example the scene of shooting
of Boggs by colonel shorburn
is in no way tunny. There
is irony in the attitude of
the people who want to look
at the dead body out of fun.
There is the painful irony
when a person performs the
mock shooting and is entertained
by the on- lookers. Funny
through the situation outwardly
appears, yet it is a kind
of cruel fun which betrays
in humanity and innate cruelty
of the dead alive loafers
who derive Sadistic pleasure
in teasing the innocent person
and animals to death. Such
situations are painful commentary
on the South Western Society.
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Mark
Twain as a Satirist.
Mark
Twain has presented himself as a Satirist
in his novel The Adventure of Huckleberry
Finn. The novel can be read as
a satire against all kinds of institutionalisms.
The chief figures through which the
satire operates are Jim, Huck and Tom
who represent, individually, three different
worlds. Jim is wedded to an extreamely
superstitious world and Tom to another
world of make believe adventurism. Huck
belongs to territory: his ethical neutrality
allows him to focus our attention on
both the worlds.
The first to
come under the satirical thrust is the
institution of slavery whose chief representative
is seen in Jim. Slavery is shown in
all its disgusting ferms. Slaves were
treated as cattles and sold in slve
trade markets. No human considerations
governed this practice. Niggers were
openly advertised in newspapers, given
exemplary punishment; even law also
had protected this Government of situation.
It is Mark Twain's striking satire.
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Huck
Finn as a trickster.
Mark
Twain's Huckleberry Finn is
a story about Huck's growing up from
childhood to adulthood together with
the knowledge of civilization. Through
out the entire journey of his maturity
Huck Finn presents himself as a trickster
together with different situations he
meets.
Huck's nature
is tricky from the very beginning of
the novel. When Huck was left with widow
Dougles he was imaginatively studying
about the behaviours of widow in a tricky
way. He was left there on his own which
was not satisfactory to him. Because
of his wide information he didn't sustain
there too for a long time. Huck's tricky
behave can be clearly seen in the relation
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