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Continuing Huck

Continuing Huck. Final Thoughts on Satire Project. What to take away from working on and observing these: Recognize the use of satire all around you Intelligent comedy Comical criticism . Final Thoughts on Satire Project. Keep in mind a lot of satiric message you yourselves presented:

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Continuing Huck

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  1. Continuing Huck

  2. Final Thoughts on Satire Project • What to take away from working on and observing these: • Recognize the use of satire all around you • Intelligent comedy • Comical criticism

  3. Final Thoughts on Satire Project • Keep in mind a lot of satiric message you yourselves presented: • The fallibility of the media • The media’s political biases • The ridiculousness of certain human behavior • The ability to recognize and use irony is one of the highest (and most human) forms of intelligence

  4. Preparing for Quiz • Be ready to define and describe the Duke and King • Know the incident with the Wilkes

  5. Quiz • Who are the King and Duke? • Who do the King and Duke pretend to be? • Why? • How does their plan fail?

  6. Back to Huck and Satire • Huck as outsider helps him present the world’s problems as comical and ridiculous • He shows us the countries ignorance, ridiculousness, and evils • What was one of the biggest evils of Twain’s times?

  7. Huck and Racism • So how is he commenting on the racism of his times? • Remember: slavery was over by the time the novel was written, so his message applies not as much to slavery as to the racism that still existed after slavery was abolished

  8. Cognitive Dissonance • Twain uses Huck as a master satiric voice; but he also uses the idea of cognitive dissonance • Definition: The feeling of discomfort accompanied by holding two contradictory ideas at once • Examples? • Food example • Smoking • Racism?

  9. Cognitive Dissonance and Racism • If you accept that “other” people are human persons, then you’re essentially arguing for their equality • But this means you can’t treat them as less than human – but people did, and people do

  10. Huck’s Racism? • What about Huck? Does he recognize Jim’s humanity? • Yes! • Is Huck racist? Does he disagree with slavery? • No! • So he is involved in cognitive dissonance: • On the one hand, he recognizes Jim’s humanity • But on the other hand, he is OK with slavery

  11. Climax of Cognitive Dissonance in Huck • Psychologically speaking, you can’t be involved in cognitive dissonance for too long – you either “correct” the problem, or go crazy • Where do we see this cognitive dissonance (this feeling of discomfort) coming to a climax? (Hint: In some ways, it’s also the climax of the novel.)

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