My favorite part of Huckleberry Finn has to be the Royal Nonesuch plays. This may come as a surprise to probably all readers of Huckleberry Finn, but there is a method to my madness. The first and foremost reason that this is my personal favorite scene is the fact that you can clearly see the development in Huck. This is very important because one of the themes of the book is the development of Huck’s character, from his actions to his thoughts and feelings about morality. Even thought the morality is questionable at times, Huck’s character makes a more distinctive line between what he he believes is right and wrong. This is not more perfectly portrayed by the Royal Nonesuch plays. Huck sees what the con men are doing and feels “ashamed of the human race”. This is such an important scene to his development because Huck used to con so many people before he developed his conscience and morality grew, and this scene is the perfect one to exemplify this development that he went through.
The second reason that this scene is so good to me is because of the writer Mark Twain’s depiction of masculinity in this scene. He deliberately only puts men in the scene because he wanted to depict the stubbornness of the men. Only men would be so stubborn that after getting duped terribly, they would go around and tell every other man to go see it because they don’t want to be seem inferior for getting tricked by the con men. Mark Twain used this as a mock of the masculinity of men to the entertainment of many readers and those are just two of the reasons that this is my favorite scene
