Numerous answers are available to this particular question
regarding this particular novel.
Twain suggests that life
in Missouri (and further down the river) somewhat hypocritical due to a distinct
religiously derived abstraction that infiltrated the character of the citizens.
Following generalized and self-serving tenets of behavior and grounding these in
religious justifications allows for the existence of slavery and rampant
fraud.
This basic moral background also creates figures
like Pap Finn and Tom Sawyer, figures of privilege who use their status as white males
to inflict harm on others with impunity.
Life in this area
is also quite provincial (removed from the sources of culture and cultural life). This
trait is expressed through Huck's "educated" view of the kings of England and the
comical mis-representations of Shakespeare's plays by the Duke.
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