Chelsea CheungBlock GEnglish IIIMs. Hunnewell16 March 2014The role of hucksters and swindlers in Huckleberry FinnTwain in his novel, Huckleberry Finn, used different characters to reveal how stupid society is. Throughout the novel there are swindlers, tricksters, pranksters who use their minimal knowledge to deceive people. Tricks appear to be a significant tool used to earn a living for many of the characters in the novel. This implies that there is a high supply of naive and foolish people in this society. Twain reveals that the town is made up of a number of stupid, ignorant, and gullible people, who are hustlers and swindlers who use their naivety to make a better life for themselves. Twain shows how the victims of scammers and swindlers are stupid enough to fall into their clutches. traps. For example, the Duke and the Dauphin take advantage of gullible citizens by putting on the show The Royal Nonesuch which has been overcharged. However, the scammers did not succeed in their show due to their ingenuity, as well as their foolishness, revenge and selfishness. After the audience of the first show realized that it was horrible and not what they expected, they lured other people into the show to get fooled in the same way they did them. Instead of warning others not to witness the spectacle, the citizens would rather let them get robbed as they did. Despite the fact that the Dauphine and the Duke were disingenuous in their rise and hilariously incompetent in their role-playing, no one would have suspected this except Doctor Robin. When the doctor tried to expose the scammers, some citizens, Mary Jane, rejected his accusations without thinking twice. This indicates that people in this society are not… the center of the paper… often Huck. According to Twain, Jim “was sitting there with his head between his knees, asleep, with his right arm hanging on the steering oar” (Twain 130). Although gravity guided the raft, Twain wanted to show how the two were ignorant enough to fall asleep on a sailboat across the Mississippi River. However, if they could have encountered some unexpected obstacle, the one to blame would be Huck; for it was Huck's turn to steer the raft. Twain attempts to reveal how people in society blindly fall into the traps of scammers and hucksters without thinking critically. In other words, people tend to take things as they are without being skeptical about the event or idea and bring it to its ultimate ruin. According to Twain, the consequences of not thinking critically about oneself are failure to succeed in the future.