Huckleberry Finn Satire Analysis

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Mark Twain utilizes satire to emphasize the flaws of southern white society. The Duke and the King characters are ones that represented men back in the 19th Century who were greedy and collected their fortune by cheating people out of their money with scams. “Well, I’d been a-runnin’ a little temperance revival and I tell you, and takin’ as much as five or six dollars a night. ‘I reckon we might double team it together; what do you think?” That there was untrustworthy men back then who were consumed by greed as Mark Twain shows in Huckleberry Finn and “met” up together and collaborated on stealing money from people.
Another point of Mark Twain’s use of satire was shown with Huckleberry Finn’s ongoing struggle between his conscience and the