The book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was wrote by a man by the name of Mark Twain.The conflict between society and the individual is a theme shows throughout Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Huck was not raised with the accepted ways of life. He practically raises himself, relying on instinct to guide him through life. As show several times in the novel, Huck chooses to follow his innate sense of right, yet he does not realize that his own instincts are more real than those of around him.
From the very beginning of huck's story, Huck clearly says that he did not want to conform to society; "The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and alowed she would sivilize me. I got into my old rags and my sugar hogshead again, and was free and satisfied." .
When Pap returns for Huck, and the matter of custody is .
brought before the court, the reader is forced to see the .
corruption of socity. The judge rules that Huck belongs to Pap, .
and forces him to obey an obviously evil and unfit man. One who .
drinks alot and beats his son. Later, when Huck makes it look .
as though he has been killed, we see how life is more conserned over finding Huck's dead body than rescuing his live one from Pap. This is a society that is more conserned about a dead body than it is in the well fare of living people.
The theme becomes even more evident once Huck and Jim set out, down the Mississippi. Huck enjoys his adventures on the raft. He prefers the freedom of the wilderness to the restrictions of society. Also, Huck's acceptance of Jim is a total defiance of society. Stangly, Huck believes he is committing a sin by going against society and protecting Jim. He does not realize that his own instincts are more really correct than those of society'.
In chapter sixteen, i see, the most inhumane action of society. Huck meets some men looking for runaway slaves, and so he tells a story about his father on the raft with smallpox.