Adventures Of Huck Finn And History
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Adventures Of Huck Finn And History
The world in which we live in now is much less oppressive than say the world
lived in the middle of the 1800’s. Up until the Civil War, the South depended
on their ‘peculiar institution’ of slavery, in order to be productive a
successful. Most people believed slavery was not wrong, but those who thought
otherwise seldom tried to alter it. In general if surrounded by oppressive
environment, one does not usually try to make a difference in that world. This
is because people are afraid to defend what is right against a whole mass of
people who believe otherwise. Huck Finn in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Billy Budd in Billy Budd, and Frederick Douglass in his autobiography all
portray individuals who because of their good, innocent qualities go up against
the oppression in their society. Living in an oppressive society does not always
draw you to do the wrong thing you are still capable of generating change,
whether it be for a certain individual or against a whole mass of people. Billy
Budd starts off on the ship the “Rights of Man”, Melville obviously showing
his intent in the naming of the first ship. This shows that on this ship where
Billy wanted to be and chose to be he had rights. That he and the other crew had
choices of what to do and how to be. Then along comes the British navy and
decides that they are going to take Billy aboard their ship “Power of War”.
This is when Billy is brought into an oppressive society. This is the navy and
wartime during which rules must be followed as well as a lifestyle that must be
followed. Billy is a poor innocent boy with a childish stutter. This stutter
shows Billy’s humane side, a flaw, as well as leading you to the thinking that
he has the innocence of a child. This stutter is connected to innocence because
of its childish qualities. When most children begin speaking they have some sort
of stutter, which usually goes away. The stutter parallels innocence because it
is showing that you are just learning how to talk and don’t really comprehend
the correct way to make sounds, as you grow older you learn and the stutter
disappears. Like innocence you are born with it, but as you grow older you
usually are not portrayed as innocent any longer. Billy is like the premature
kid who still has both his stutter and his innocence. Billy is introduced to
many people aboard his new ship and is confronted by John Claggart. In this
movie Claggart is the one who Billy must actually go u...
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