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This paper compares "Huckleberry Finn" and "Oliver Twist", showing how the two books share the theme of a corrupt adult society, and how the irony in both works is often centered around racism and religion. Even the characters of Oliver and Huck are shown to have a number of similar traits. Numerous examples from the text are used to prove their similarities.

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"Oliver Twist and Huckleberry Finn share a number of dominant themes. One of these, very present in Huckleberry Finn, is the theme of the corrupt adult world. Twain shows how corrupt society really is through the characters of the Widow and Miss Watson. These two ladies appear indeed very hypocritical because they teach Huck all about the beauty of religion and being civilized when themselves own slaves and thus deliberately contradict the Christian belief of racial equality. Huck's father brings out the racist character of the Southern society, full of ignorant men and women, again profoundly hypocritical and who consider themselves as the descendants of European aristocracy."

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