Man's Inhumanity In Huckleberry Finn

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Anyway, this research will focus only on three aspects - conscience crisis, violence, and fate and destiny. These aspects will be discussed in three separate chapters under the umbrella of the selected novels of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men(1937) , The Grapes of Wrath(1939) , and The Pearl (1947) and Cormac McCarthy ’s Blood Meridian (1985) , No country for old men( 2005) , and The Road (2006) . The investigator has adopted the sociological methodology throughout the thesis. Furthermore , the second chapter - conscience crisis, will be divided into two parts ( man’s inhumanity to man and greed ). “The phrase (Man's inhumanity to man) is first documented in the Robert Burns poem called Man Was Made to Mourn, Samuel Von Pufendorf also …show more content…

Firstly, let’s take Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain uses several different themes in this novel to portray the meaning of the human predicament in the novel through dealing with the theme of man’s inhumanity to man . Huck Finn states "Human beings can be awfully cruel to one another" (254 Mark Twain).This theme occurs several times throughout the novel. It is developed through the inhumane actions of Pap towards Huck, the feuds between the Grangerfords and the Shephersons, and the dishonesty of the King and the Duke to the Wilks girls, the townsmen, and their betrayal of Jim for money. Mark Twain shows how man is inhuman to other men, even if they are related and supposed to love each other.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel in which the protagonist experiences man’s inhumanity to man in multiple forms: slavery and its brutality; selling a free man into slavery and allowing teenagers to treat him like a play-thing; separating families via slave auction; abusive parenting; alcohol abuse; honor killings; double-crossing; murders; lies; scams; two characters tortured by being tarred and feathered; and incivility of every sort. (Sean P. Connors, …show more content…

Scout Finch encounters prejudice in all of its forms, with that of gender and social class. Harper Lee illustrates the racial prejudice the book, black men are referred to as the lowest level class in society. The discrimination in this form is obvious to the reader, as the reluctance to act against racial, gender, and social injustices was in the past, it is still evident in today’s society in as many forms, and it may yet continue on into the future. Harper Lee suggests that humanity is concerned with the evil in society; in the same time she proposes that the majority of human beings still desire to behave humanely and continue to harbor an optimistic approach to the

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