Theme Of Corruption In Huck Finn

In this novel, Huckleberry Finn is a young uncivilized person who is actually a lot more civilized inside than he is on the outside. Huck knows right from wrong better than a lot of kids in that time period. Huck may not have the best grammar but he is very good at knowing how society is corrupt and out of sorts without actually saying so. Author Mark Twain uses the characterization of Huck as someone who doesn’t really condemn the morality and conventions of society as a tool to ultimately condemn this moral order by the two conscience attacks, Shurburn’s incident and his town, “the fog trick”, and the final scene. The first way Huck shows how wrong society is, is in his conscience attacks. His first one takes place in chapter 16 of the novel. Huck and …show more content…
Huck realizes how uncivilized these people are and sees them talking about the stupidest things. He sees a couple men discussing “tobacker” and he sees how pointless and uneducated these conversations were. While Huck is uneducated himself, Huck has some common sense and states in a very long description of the town, how absurd the town and its people are. In his description of the town he does not say one thing that sounds like it was an attack on the town. He simply sees what is going on and states it as it is so the ability to say something as it is, is a great characteristic to have sometimes. In this case it is a very positive one that Twain gives Huck. Also in this part of the story, the Duke and Dauphin are able to constantly go around and just get everyone to come and see their show. This again shows how stupid society is made out to look here. If Huck realized that these people were a joke and ALL of society didn’t that just shows something. Huck is made to look like an idiot and if Huck figured them out all of society should be able to as