Adventures Of Huck Finn By Twain
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Adventures Of Huck Finn By Twain
America… land of the free and home of the brave; the utopian society which
every European citizen desired to be a part of in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The revolutionary ideas of The Age of Enlightenment such as democracy and
universal male suffrage were finally becoming a reality to the philosophers and
scholars that so elegantly dreamt of them. America was a playground for the
ideas of these enlightened men. To Europeans, and the world for that matter,
America had become a kind of mirage, an idealistic version of society, a place
of open opportunities. Where else on earth could a man like J. D. Rockefeller
rise from the streets to one of the richest men of his time? America stood for
ideals like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. People in America had
an almost unconditional freedom: freedom to worship, write, speak, and live in
any manner that so pleased them. But was this freedom for everyone? Was America,
the utopia for the millions of common men from around world, as great as the
philosophers and scholars fantasized? America, as a society, as a country, and
as a leader was not as picture perfect as Europeans believed. The United States,
under all the gold plating, carried a burden of unsolved national problems,
especially racial. The deep scar of slavery had left a dent in the seemingly
impenetrable armor of the country. From the times of early colonization to the
late 19th century, Africans had been brought over by the thousands in
overcrowded and unsanitary slave ships and sold like cattle to the highest
bidder, an inhumane and despicable act that America, land of the free and home
of the brave, allowed to happen. Why? Slavery is what the plantation society of
the South thrived on. The South’s entire economic system was built upon the
shoulders of the African slave. Too precious and dear to let go, the South held
on to this institution until the Thirteenth Amendment was signed in by Lincoln
in 1865. In this hypocritical society is where The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn finds itself. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an epic
story of the journey of a redneck boy and a runaway slave, escaping the grips of
society in the hope of a chance at the freedom they long for so dearly. The
novel’s author, Mark Twain, also grew up in this society. Samuel Clemens,
Twain’s birth name, led a life that had a great influence on the works that he
produced later in his life. Born in Florida, Missouri, Cl...
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