In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain satirizes freedom by using indirect satire.
Huck and Jim both yearn for freedom. Huck wants to be free of petty manners, societal values, and of his abusive father. Maybe more than anything, Huck wants to be free such that he can think independently and do what his heart tells him to do. Similarly, Jim wants to be free of bondage so that he can return to his wife and children.
Huck feels bad and low when he returns to the raft, but reasons that he would feel just as bad had he done “right” and turned Jim in. He figures it is easier to do wrong than right, and that the outcome of doing either is the same, and so decides to “always do whichever come handiest at the time.”
Given that Huck would feel
Huck and Jim both yearn for freedom. Huck wants to be free of petty manners, societal values, and of his abusive father. Maybe more than anything, Huck wants to be free such that he can think independently and do what his heart tells him to do. Similarly, Jim wants to be free of bondage so that he can return to his wife and children.
Huck feels bad and low when he returns to the raft, but reasons that he would feel just as bad had he done “right” and turned Jim in. He figures it is easier to do wrong than right, and that the outcome of doing either is the same, and so decides to “always do whichever come handiest at the time.”
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