Isolation And The Individual I

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thoughts and emotions and the consequences of each upon the self and the world. Logically proceeding the definition of the individual outside of society is the definition of society; a term that “can be used to designate the specifically relational system of interaction among individuals and collectivities” (Sanford 219). By positioning the polarities of individual and society in a conflict of values the satirist has created an effective method for criticizing society. The major trends the satirist may attribute to the individuals separated from society are the inability to integrate themselves into society, a certain degree of naiveté, and have definite flaws. These trends are apparent in the protagonists of the satiric novels: Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 and Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.
Mark Twain’s satirical novel Huckleberry Finn has a main protagonist that is a precocious boy named Huckleberry Finn. Huck Finn’s initiation into society and ...

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new clothes, a servant to follow him around, and attends church every Sunday. However, Huck attends church but feels that it “was pretty ornery preaching—all about brotherly love, and such like tiredness” (Twain 131). But when Huck is faced with the violence of the feud between the Grangerfords and the Sheperdson’s he is horrified and disgusted at the pointlessness at the cruelty and violence of the feud between the two-aristocratic families. The two brothers and the father of the Grangerford family are killed and Huck witnesses the brutal shooting of his friend Buck and his cousin Joe. Huck gives an account of his feelings after witnessing the murder:
It made me so sick... I ain’t ...

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