While some people reveal their dark sides the moment two people meet, most try to hide their dark side until later. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain follows Huckleberry Finn as he travels down the Mississippi River on a raft and as he encounters many types of people who use immediate and prolonged demonstration of the dark side of their human nature. Through the character of fourteen-year-old Huck Finn and his interaction with the minor characters, Twain reveals the hypocrisy, flagellation, and irony of the situations Huck encounters, establishing the theme that every human being has a darker side to cause of nature. Throughout his life in the novel, Huck reveals through his interactions with the Widow Douglass and Silas Phelps the hypocrisy of those characters. For example, in the first chapter, the Widow Douglass takes snuff, but would not allow Huck to smoke since smoking "wasn't clean, and…he didn't do it anymore" (2). While the Widow Douglass preaches virtues to Huck and tells him of all the unclean practices of the world, she falls short of that knowledge as the same drugs are in snuff as in cigarettes and reveals her dark side; she is an oppressor who wants everyone to agree with her practices and bends the rules slightly to fit her lifestyle. In another example, Huck reveals the hypocrisy of the prejudiced society when he visits the Phelpses. As Silas Phelps and Aunt Sally declare Jim's contents in the little shed, they reveal that Jim is nothing more than a piece of property in their minds. As Jim says when Huck and Tom visit the shack where Jim is held prisoner until Miss Watson comes to get her slave, Silas prays with Jim every day. The action reveals the hypocrisy of Slias in the fact that Silas does not pray with Jim on the account Sil...... middle of the paper ......d of the two families show that behind the civilized personality are hidden the true actions gods the feud reveals their dark human nature. This darker nature is the mob mentality where the basis of their family feud is a basis that cannot be remembered, making the feud a meaningless fight between the two families. Through these ironic actions of the Shepherdson and Grangerford families, Twain reveals the darker sides of human nature. The prejudices on which “civilized society” rests build those who are blind to the injustices that occur. The dark faces that societies hid from are revealed through the character of Huck and his interaction between the minor characters. Twain's exposure of the dark side to even moral looking people reveals the theme of everyone wearing a face and behind the facade there is a much darker side that most people don't want exposed..