The adventures of Huckleberry Finn Essay
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” Essay by Milena K
A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.
That's just the trouble with the world today. -Jiminy Cricket.
Its common for humans to shape their opinions and actions according to the people they're surrounded by. They tend to assimilate themselves rather than indulge in unique behavior. But Huckleberry Finn is naturally recalcitrant. Having grown up without reasonable guidelines he acts on impulses and his own judgment. This makes him quite hard to govern, as many women through out the novel discover. Yet it also instills in him a shrewd sense of subjectivity. “ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain hails individual determination of morals in midst a society with twisted ethics, where what is sinful is simultaneously considered socially acceptable. Along the Missouri river Huck's perception of the world matures through varied exposure to indecency. At the beginning of the novel Huck resists Widow Douglas' attempts to “civilize” him. To him the word means well-mannered, well dressed, stuffy, boring and educated. It also connotes confinement. This idea is particularly important in light of the last line of the book “Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before” (p.281) By this point Huck has had far more experience with “sivilized” people. He has seen society in all its racist, violent, deceptive and cowardice facets. In many of his “adventures” he encounters violence in a way that almost seems commonplace. Mr. Sherburn shooting a harmless fool in the middle of the day in front of his daughter is one example. The Duke and Dauphin being tarred and feather is another, along with the mortal family feud that breaks out between the Shepards and the Grangerfords. When people do wrong, they are not punished by officials. The legal system is virtually absent throughout the novel. Ruthless masses see it as their
A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.
That's just the trouble with the world today. -Jiminy Cricket.
Its common for humans to shape their opinions and actions according to the people they're surrounded by. They tend to assimilate themselves rather than indulge in unique behavior. But Huckleberry Finn is naturally recalcitrant. Having grown up without reasonable guidelines he acts on impulses and his own judgment. This makes him quite hard to govern, as many women through out the novel discover. Yet it also instills in him a shrewd sense of subjectivity. “ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain hails individual determination of morals in midst a society with twisted ethics, where what is sinful is simultaneously considered socially acceptable. Along the Missouri river Huck's perception of the world matures through varied exposure to indecency. At the beginning of the novel Huck resists Widow Douglas' attempts to “civilize” him. To him the word means well-mannered, well dressed, stuffy, boring and educated. It also connotes confinement. This idea is particularly important in light of the last line of the book “Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before” (p.281) By this point Huck has had far more experience with “sivilized” people. He has seen society in all its racist, violent, deceptive and cowardice facets. In many of his “adventures” he encounters violence in a way that almost seems commonplace. Mr. Sherburn shooting a harmless fool in the middle of the day in front of his daughter is one example. The Duke and Dauphin being tarred and feather is another, along with the mortal family feud that breaks out between the Shepards and the Grangerfords. When people do wrong, they are not punished by officials. The legal system is virtually absent throughout the novel. Ruthless masses see it as their