Irony In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

John Locke was a prominent English philosopher who once claimed that children are empty vessels waiting to be filled. Locke's reasoning was that grown-ups had the impact to form and shape kids into being whatever the grown-up wanted. Similarly, Mark Twain, the creator of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, includes numerous literary elements to portray how the grown-ups in the novel impact Huck's point of view on life. In Huckleberry Finn, Twain uses literary techniques of irony and exaggerations that create mockery to expose the flaws of society and how they disfigure Huck’s morals. To begin, irony is the use of words to portray a message that is the complete opposite of the literal meaning. There are numerous times in the novel where Huck's