Satire #3
Whilst researching my position for the essay on ‘Huckleberry Finn’, i found new perspectives on the type of satire implemented into the novel. A point that i had not thought of yet was that Mark Twain was not only satirizing the American society of 1800, but more specifically the Southern societies.
Stuck in their ways with no desire to change, Twain explores the societies along the Mississippi River. The common need to civilize young children and to educate them on the Bible but most importantly to secure slavery within the South for as long as it would last. These people see themselves as upstanding townsfolk with good morals and intentions yet at every bend in the river, the reader encounters another slave owning person. This is the constant piece of satire presented throughout the book. That upstanding Christian people could be so barbaric as to own and work slaves. People who have the right to their own lives, to their own freedom. This piece of satire is ironically only recognized by Huck, the boy who is helping an escaped slave and who is seen as needing to be ’sivilized’.
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