Internal Conflicts In Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is full of conflicts. Twain skillfully manipulates many conflicts throughout the book in order to get the reader’s attention and draw them into the story. He introduces to its readers different sets of conflicts that arise from the interactions of his characters.
Thus, the next section of this thesis focuses in this aspect of the novel, that is, its main conflicts, which will be analyzed separately in more detail in the following paragraphs. The main conflicts that appear in the novel consist of conflicts that characters have with themselves, conflicts that characters have with each other and conflicts that characters have with the society.

6.1. Internal conflicts
This is the conflict that occurs when a character experiences an inner struggle, usually to arrive at a decision or a solution.
Huck’s internal conflict with his conscience
Huck has to consider many alternatives before making up his mind. One of the major conflicts in the novel that the main character deals with is when he faces a moral dilemma.

His indecisiveness comes from the fact that all his life he has been taught that white people are superior to black people and they have the privilege to own slaves. But, on the other hand he expresses disapproval of the laws of the society, regarding the treatment of human beings as property. What torments him throughout the story is the fact that he encounters people who are morally less superior than Jim and wonders whether he deserves to be left in other people’s mercy and be deprived of his