Examples Of Irony In Huckleberry Finn

In Mark Twain’s novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain characterizes Pap as an entitled hypocrite through irony as a literary technique to reveal the undeserved sense of importance felt by people at the time. When Pap arrives to the cabin after getting drunk in town, he begins to rant of how unacceptable the government is. Pap complains Judge Thatcher is repressing him of “[his] property” through his attempts to remove him as Huck’s parental guardian. (Twain 28). Irony is employed as Pap refers to the money Huck obtains as his own and claims the government is taking away his rights when the situation signifies the opposite as he never raises Huck in the slightest and controls him for the purpose of his money. It is ironic that Pap believes