Huckleberry Finn Essay

Society and Hypocrisy In this society Huck lives in a mostly based upon tradition and rules lived upon many of ridiculous inhumans. In the beginning of the novel, Huck’s guardian Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson try to sivilize Huck by teaching himself to learn to become Christianity and teaching him manners. His characteristics from expectations were different and he realized it made him uncomfortable, bored, and lonely. He exposes himself even deeper and darker into society where people do the most ridiculous things involving violence. In this novel, Huck experiences society turn around in different ways. Huck’s actions in the beginning symbolizes the rejection of Miss Watson and Widow
Douglas’s symbolization. Huckleberry believed that civilization was a loss of freedom that living outdoors with adult parenting control rebels him. Society’s ideas of civilized was being well behaved and politeful manners to the superiors. The widow and Miss Watson try to indoctrinate
Huckleberry, but he can never bring himself to do it. Huckleberry thinks he shouldn’t live like the rest of the people because if he did, he would become just like them. He wanted to be different and separated from others from his differencing. He assumes guilt for what he does, but to preserve his lifestyle. Unsure of what society’s standards of goodness is, Huck is very benevolent. Through Huck’s own beliefs and principles, he breaks away from the view of society.
Huck believes he is troubled by it as he lives by his rules and tries to do the best things for himself. The only problem that Huck had was his anti­society attitude towards others especially Jim.