Critiquing+of+Institutions

Mark Twain in his Novel Huckleberry Finn satirizes what family means and stands for. A family is essentially an effecient unit. There are providers and consumers. The providers are the parents raising their children to become successful acceptable members of society. In an idealistic society, the society is composed of families that are effective and happy which therein lies the idealistic views of family. Twain takes a more realist side to the idea of family creating multiple instances in the novel of families that didn't end up perfectly. The first example would be Huck's Family which is seperated. Also Huck's Father is a drunk that beats him. Another instance is Widow Douglas and Miss Watson, neither of which are part of a family during the time period that we see in the story. This could possibly be a reference to part of Twain's past or just a way for him to express his beliefs.

Home