Examples Of Hypocrisy In Huckleberry Finn
In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, two characters reject society, and spontaneously adventure the south. In this novel, they run into many endeavors in which they must overcome. In this essay, I will reveal how characters such as Miss Watson, Mrs. Loftus, Aunt Sally, the Dauphin and Duke, the Sheperdsons and Grangerfords and Huck Finn expose hypocrisy and duality. With these themes present throughout this non fictional story, you can see how characters support this theme.
The widow exemplifies this theme in quite some ways. In the beginning of the novel, the widow tells Huck not to smoke tobacco. She, however, takes snuff whenever she wants to.. On the same page, Huck tells the reader that she would read stories about Moses and the widow acts religious when, in fact, she isn’t (2-2). There isn’t much of an indication that the widow was okay with Miss Watson owning a slave, yet if she were real “religious” she would’ve did something about it such as set Jim free. The are just a few examples of hypocrisy and duality in this novel.
Mrs. Loftus, a character introduced more towards the beginning of the story, is a character in which hypocrisy or duality is least expected. This lady is so kind to Huck and one of the …show more content…
Huck is a book smart young man in which grew up in a bad environment. He always was all about the right thing, no matter what it was. He definitely had a conscience which is inscribed throughout the novel. There are many examples, such as when the robbers drowned. He felt bad and wanted to do the right thing and save them but he couldn’t. When he was with Tom Sawyer however, he got a little more mischievous and spiteful. He would do things that he wouldn’t regularly do such as be sneaky and come up with plans which is shown in Chapter 35. This plan is to free Jim, which I would argue is the right thing. I feel without Tom Sawyer influencing Huck, he’d never do
The widow exemplifies this theme in quite some ways. In the beginning of the novel, the widow tells Huck not to smoke tobacco. She, however, takes snuff whenever she wants to.. On the same page, Huck tells the reader that she would read stories about Moses and the widow acts religious when, in fact, she isn’t (2-2). There isn’t much of an indication that the widow was okay with Miss Watson owning a slave, yet if she were real “religious” she would’ve did something about it such as set Jim free. The are just a few examples of hypocrisy and duality in this novel.
Mrs. Loftus, a character introduced more towards the beginning of the story, is a character in which hypocrisy or duality is least expected. This lady is so kind to Huck and one of the …show more content…
Huck is a book smart young man in which grew up in a bad environment. He always was all about the right thing, no matter what it was. He definitely had a conscience which is inscribed throughout the novel. There are many examples, such as when the robbers drowned. He felt bad and wanted to do the right thing and save them but he couldn’t. When he was with Tom Sawyer however, he got a little more mischievous and spiteful. He would do things that he wouldn’t regularly do such as be sneaky and come up with plans which is shown in Chapter 35. This plan is to free Jim, which I would argue is the right thing. I feel without Tom Sawyer influencing Huck, he’d never do