Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn deals with the issue of collective consciousness, and Huck's digression from collective consciousness, on many levels. ... His reason for wanting to defy simple religious morality is practical for him: he wants to be with his friend Tom Sawyer. Huck relays, "I asked her if Tom Sawyer would go [to the good place], and, she said, not by a considerable sight. ... As Sherburn continues his castigation of the mob, he says, "The pitifulest thing out is a mob But a mob without any man at the head of it, is beneath pitifulness. (111)" Sherburns...

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