Huckleberry Finn Conflict Analysis

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is regarded as one of the greatest American novel of all time. It’s set in the 19th century and portrays the society’s hypocritical and discriminative behavior towards blacks during that time. The main character, Huckleberry Finn, is in a fight with the whole society, its norms and the discriminatory Ideology of the people. He embarks on a life changing journey down the river with a runaway slave named Jim. This is most prominent conflict of the novel and the author, Mark Twain, uses different critical lenses to portray this conflict of Huck throughout his journey down the river. From the beginning of the story, the author portrays Huck as someone who doesn’t want to live by the rules. He doesn’t follow

Pap is another authority Huck is afraid of due to his abusive nature. "Then I turned around, and there he was. I used to be scared of him all the time, he tanned me so much." (Twain 18), Pap suppresses Huck throughout the novel. His character represents the part of the mind concerned with the rules and taboos of the society called the superego. He, in a way, symbolizes the authority which Huck wants to achieve and also escape from. "Well, I'll learn her how to meddle. Looky here -- you drop that school, you hear? I'll learn people to bring up a boy to put on airs over his own father and let on to be better'n what He is. You lemme catch you fooling around that school again, you hear?" (Twain 39). This is another ironic quote which shows the selfishness of Pap, Huck’s father who doesn’t want his child to go to school just because he himself is uneducated. He thinks that if Huck receives education, he would disrespect him even more. In the book, school is shown to be bad as it corrupts children’s mind with the same stereotypical ideas however the reason for Pap to say the school is bad is that because he cannot see his son to be more educated than him. This conflict is resolved when Pap dies due to a