Why Is Huck Finn Wrong

Every society has fundamental ideologies that have always been a certain way, but what if these ideologies repressed people, without them ever being able to see it. Have you ever seen something in society that you know is wrong, but no one else seems to acknowledge it? This is the In Mark Twain’s in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck Finn is the character who has the necessary morality and internal voice to be able to understand that the ideologies put in place by his society are wrong, but he does not only acknowledge this, he also tries to challenge the system that he sees as oppressive. Through his journey, Huck makes many decisions to undermine the repressive society that surrounds him in favor of his own personal values that drive
One night Jim “...creeps to de do’, pooty late, en de do’ warn’t quite shet, en I hear ole missus tell de widder she gwyne to sell me down to Orleans...”(Twain 54). In this moment, Jim is telling huck that he overheard miss Watson telling the Widow she is planning on selling him to New Orleans. Twain’s intentional use of poor grammar and incomplete words to remain accurate to the times, and to show that Jim was never taught to articulate properly as he is a slave. Another moment in which Huck sees slavery as an oppressive ideology in society occurs when Pap, Huck’s abusive father, complains that “[the government] got to set stock-still for six whole months before it can take ahold of a prowling, thieving, infernal, white-shirted free nigger...”(Twain 37). Use of this extremely racist character juxtaposes Huck’s ideas of slavery and and emphasis to the great extent of racism during this time. The systematic racism that is universally accepted by everyone in the community, Huck sees as immoral and as an ideology that is designed to hold back and oppress a whole race, so he tries to change this by intervening and acting as a Marxist instrument to remove this widely accepted oppressive
Thoreau’s comparison of the morally inactive man to serving the same purpose as a man made of wood shows that people who cannot make their own moral decisions are no more than pawns of society that simply stand by as they were taught and never question the reason behind their societies principles. Often the idols looked up to by society, or deemed a good citizen within society does only what is told to them by society, but does not create their own path though morality, rather following whatever is accepted by society. Twain uses Huck as a morally right Marxist to challenge the oppressive society that has oppressed millions of blacks over the years, and to challenge the deep rooted institution of racism within the