But these two perspectives do not quite run concurrently with Mark Twain's belief that one needs both a strong intellect and emotional consistency to achieve freedom. The question is if Huck Finn, the protagonist of the novel, is able to achieve this individual freedom. ... Huck Finn is fresh off of an adventure with his friend Tom Sawyer, both of whom are now six thousand dollars richer. ... In short, Bennett's "The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn" argues how Huck's lack of intellectual freedom and "weakness of will" restrain him from being a truly free ind...

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• Grade Level: High School

Book banning has been a familiar part of the educational landscape in the twentieth century, and even such literary masterpieces as Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice have not escaped the censor's wrath for their allegedly racist views. ... The comic books that children read and TV shows that were derived from those comics, such as The Adventures of Spiderman, reflected that belief in heroes. ... Programs reflected this new sad reality as a new generation of action-packed adventure shows either from primetime dramas to daytime cartoons, in wh...

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