Conscience In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1) The Conscience of a 13 year old Boy: The White, Black, and Gray Areas
Traveling down the Mississippi river to leave his problems behind, Huck Finn only finds more. During his journey, Huck's two-sided personality kicks in and nearly causes him to abandon his friend Jim, a runaway slave. Now one may infer that Huck is merely a young and confused boy trying to figure out if his friendship is worth all of this trouble. That however, many not be what Twain is trying to get at.
"Conscience says to me 'what had poor Miss Watson done to you, that you could see her nigger go off right under your eyes and never say one single word? What did that poor old woman do to you that you could treat her so mean.'" …show more content…
On the one hand Huck could help his friend Jim escape and become a free man, and quite possibly change his entire future. On the other, Huck could do as society tells him and what Miss. Watson would want and turn Jim in. As the reader finishes the chapter, one can conclude that it is not just about a fight with Huck's conscience but rather Twain trying to point out the great disparity of the times. A time when people were torn between what was right by society, and what was right by heart. Twain masterly crafts what appears to be the conscience of a confused boy to an giant moral question. Is slavery right and should we help the salves escape? Twain says "Conscience says to me" notice he does not say "Huck thought". It would be ridiculous to imply that Twain is not talking about slavery, because slavery is a major theme throughout the whole book, but perhaps Twain is discussing the
1) The Conscience of a 13 year old Boy: The White, Black, and Gray Areas
Traveling down the Mississippi river to leave his problems behind, Huck Finn only finds more. During his journey, Huck's two-sided personality kicks in and nearly causes him to abandon his friend Jim, a runaway slave. Now one may infer that Huck is merely a young and confused boy trying to figure out if his friendship is worth all of this trouble. That however, many not be what Twain is trying to get at.
"Conscience says to me 'what had poor Miss Watson done to you, that you could see her nigger go off right under your eyes and never say one single word? What did that poor old woman do to you that you could treat her so mean.'" …show more content…
On the one hand Huck could help his friend Jim escape and become a free man, and quite possibly change his entire future. On the other, Huck could do as society tells him and what Miss. Watson would want and turn Jim in. As the reader finishes the chapter, one can conclude that it is not just about a fight with Huck's conscience but rather Twain trying to point out the great disparity of the times. A time when people were torn between what was right by society, and what was right by heart. Twain masterly crafts what appears to be the conscience of a confused boy to an giant moral question. Is slavery right and should we help the salves escape? Twain says "Conscience says to me" notice he does not say "Huck thought". It would be ridiculous to imply that Twain is not talking about slavery, because slavery is a major theme throughout the whole book, but perhaps Twain is discussing the