The prolound portrait of Huck is a great contribution of of uckleberry Finn to the legacy of American literature.Briefly analyze the character and the impacis upon the socicty.
The novel begins with a description of how Widow Douglas attempts to civilize Huck and ends with him deciding not to let it happen again at the hands of Aunt Sally. The climax arises with Huck’s inner struggle on the Mississippi, when Huck is polarized by the two opposing forces between his heart and his head, between his affection for Jim and the laws of the society against those who help slaves escape. Huck’s final decision is to follow his own good-hearted moral impulse rather than conventional village morality. With the eventual victory his moral conscience over his social awareness, Huck grows. Huck is a typical American Boy whom its creator described as a boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience.” Through the eyes of Huck, the innocent and reluctant rebel, we see the pre-Civil War American society fully exposed and at the same time we are deeply impressed by Mark Twain’s thematic contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilization.
