Religious Hypocrisy In Huck Finn
In “the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” society exemplifies religious hypocrisy. Twain speaks to the audience of religious southerners, like Miss Watson, who feel they know the Bible yet remain blind.
Twain uses the archetype goggles, “Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on” in the characterization of Miss Watson. This was to say she cannot see clearly and is oblivious to reality. With the irony of Miss Watson seemingly knowing all when it comes to religion, even though she is very blind to reality and her hypocritical actions, Twain seems to use Miss Watson’s views of heaven in a satirical manner, “She said it was wicked to say what I said; said she wouldn’t say it for the whole world; she was going to live so …show more content…
Is it right to reveal a Jew hiding in your home during the Holocaust? Morally speaking, sending someone to his or her inevitable death does not seem to be intuitively good, even though lying is a sin. Huck is an antithetical character to Miss Watson. Huck believes hell would not be so bad if it meant Miss Watson would stop nagging, and Tom Sawyer would be there too. I can see Miss Watson’s idea of heaven as simply “to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever” sounds much like a fairy tale. There is good reason Huck “didn’t think much of it”. I believe with religion, you cannot equate the wrongdoings of a believer to a non-believer. Miss Watson does the opposite when it comes to Tom Sawyer. She believes Tom Sawyer will not be invited to the “good place” after we all die. Who wants that kind of heaven? It seems to be derived from hypocritical rules of Miss Watson’s faith. Miss Watson’s notions of good lack the moral thinking we intuitively have in modern day. After speaking of heaven determined by good actions, Miss Watson brings in the slaves for dinner prayer. Twain uses irony with Miss Watson being a “humane” slave-owner. These seem to be mutually exclusive. Evidently, Mark Twain uses the hypocrisy of Miss Watson to shed light on character flaws in religious southerners at the
Twain uses the archetype goggles, “Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on” in the characterization of Miss Watson. This was to say she cannot see clearly and is oblivious to reality. With the irony of Miss Watson seemingly knowing all when it comes to religion, even though she is very blind to reality and her hypocritical actions, Twain seems to use Miss Watson’s views of heaven in a satirical manner, “She said it was wicked to say what I said; said she wouldn’t say it for the whole world; she was going to live so …show more content…
Is it right to reveal a Jew hiding in your home during the Holocaust? Morally speaking, sending someone to his or her inevitable death does not seem to be intuitively good, even though lying is a sin. Huck is an antithetical character to Miss Watson. Huck believes hell would not be so bad if it meant Miss Watson would stop nagging, and Tom Sawyer would be there too. I can see Miss Watson’s idea of heaven as simply “to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever” sounds much like a fairy tale. There is good reason Huck “didn’t think much of it”. I believe with religion, you cannot equate the wrongdoings of a believer to a non-believer. Miss Watson does the opposite when it comes to Tom Sawyer. She believes Tom Sawyer will not be invited to the “good place” after we all die. Who wants that kind of heaven? It seems to be derived from hypocritical rules of Miss Watson’s faith. Miss Watson’s notions of good lack the moral thinking we intuitively have in modern day. After speaking of heaven determined by good actions, Miss Watson brings in the slaves for dinner prayer. Twain uses irony with Miss Watson being a “humane” slave-owner. These seem to be mutually exclusive. Evidently, Mark Twain uses the hypocrisy of Miss Watson to shed light on character flaws in religious southerners at the