The lack of knowledge or information, ignorance, will always be apparent as long as humans roam the Earth. When satirizing ignorance, it is not just making humor out of the absence of awareness but also to evoke change. Ignorance, although being a simple term, has several variations. Racial, religious, and violent ignorance are all presented and satirized in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain satirizes ignorance to produce change in society through the King’s religious ignorance in Pokeville, through Pap’s racial ignorance when talking about black freedom, and through the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons violent ignorance in their feud.
During the religious revival camp in the woods, Mark Twain utilizes …show more content…
When going on a rant about the government in the cabin with Huck, Pap talks about black people voting saying,“When they told me there was a State in this country where they’d let that nigger vote, I drawed out. I says I’ll never vote again…I says to the people, why ain’t this nigger put up at auction and sold”(29)? Twain satirizes Pap’s racial ignorance by making him go to the extent of never voting again. Twain shows that making this kind of tantrum is foolish, Pap’s provides no evidence of why blacks should not be able to vote yet still says “why ain’t this nigger put up at auction and sold?” Twain not only show Pap’s ignorance but shows the audience how stupid it is to do such a thing, therefore provoking change. Twain, however, want’s to make Pap as idiotic as possible to make his allegations look more idiotic themselves. He does this when showing Paps lecturing Huck about life decisions saying, “And looky here—you drop that school, you hear? I’ll learn people to bring up a boy to put on airs over his own father and let on to be better’n what he is”(21). Twain makes Pap so ignorant that Pap thinks he himself can teach Huck better than the school. Just like how Twain utilizes the King for his religious ignorance, he uses Pap to show society how …show more content…
He uses the King to show religious ignorance and the abuses of it for material gain. He uses Pap’s racial ignorance to show how society does not have a reason to discriminate. He uses Buck to show violent ignorance to show that society does not need violence to solve its problems. Mark Twain uses the satirization of ignorance for a better change in
During the religious revival camp in the woods, Mark Twain utilizes …show more content…
When going on a rant about the government in the cabin with Huck, Pap talks about black people voting saying,“When they told me there was a State in this country where they’d let that nigger vote, I drawed out. I says I’ll never vote again…I says to the people, why ain’t this nigger put up at auction and sold”(29)? Twain satirizes Pap’s racial ignorance by making him go to the extent of never voting again. Twain shows that making this kind of tantrum is foolish, Pap’s provides no evidence of why blacks should not be able to vote yet still says “why ain’t this nigger put up at auction and sold?” Twain not only show Pap’s ignorance but shows the audience how stupid it is to do such a thing, therefore provoking change. Twain, however, want’s to make Pap as idiotic as possible to make his allegations look more idiotic themselves. He does this when showing Paps lecturing Huck about life decisions saying, “And looky here—you drop that school, you hear? I’ll learn people to bring up a boy to put on airs over his own father and let on to be better’n what he is”(21). Twain makes Pap so ignorant that Pap thinks he himself can teach Huck better than the school. Just like how Twain utilizes the King for his religious ignorance, he uses Pap to show society how …show more content…
He uses the King to show religious ignorance and the abuses of it for material gain. He uses Pap’s racial ignorance to show how society does not have a reason to discriminate. He uses Buck to show violent ignorance to show that society does not need violence to solve its problems. Mark Twain uses the satirization of ignorance for a better change in