By emphasizing how the white characters feel about slavery and using irony to highlight their extreme hypocrisy, Twain wants to anger his readers at the absurd characters so they can push for change portrayed and to bring awareness to how society was reluctant to change. Huck’s alcoholic father, Paps, reacts negatively when a black person is well-educated and free,he says, “.....what is the country a-coming to? It was ‘lection day, and I was just about to go and vote myself if I warn’t too drunk to get there; but when they told me there was a State in this country where they’d let that nigger vote, I drawed out….I’ll never vote agin as long as I live….I says to the people, why ain’t this nigger put up at auction and sold?... prowling, thieving, infernal, white-shirted free nigger, and—” (Twain 27).
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But the irony is that Paps is a flawed person who abuses his son, steals, and lies, and thinks he is still superior to slaves like Jim shows. The same hypocrisy as that of Huck's father is shown through the Duke and the King when they are commenting on the stereotype that black people steal. The Duke and the King pretended to be Harvey and William Wilks who are related to this guy they do not know, Peter Wilks. They pretended to be his brothers and end up stealing thousands of dollars in gold from his niece, Mary
But the irony is that Paps is a flawed person who abuses his son, steals, and lies, and thinks he is still superior to slaves like Jim shows. The same hypocrisy as that of Huck's father is shown through the Duke and the King when they are commenting on the stereotype that black people steal. The Duke and the King pretended to be Harvey and William Wilks who are related to this guy they do not know, Peter Wilks. They pretended to be his brothers and end up stealing thousands of dollars in gold from his niece, Mary