Ap English Literature Research Paper

A large number of the arts throughout history have focused on man’s struggle within himself against morality, conscience, and ambition. Literature is not an exception. F. Scott Fitzgerald delineates a fundamental truth of literature’s nature saying, “This is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” Literature itself attempts to enlighten readers by showing commonality among men, and through encouragement that they are not alone in their desires, predicaments, and struggles that are the result of inherent depravity. The best literature brings hope and encouragement as it not only displays the outworking of our depravity, but it …show more content…
Anything less is a form of slavery.” If this is to be taken as truth, Huckleberry Finn certainly struggled with enslavement. Huck narrates his displeasure with society saying, “The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways... I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied” (Twain 1). Huck in the story is a young boy, relatively rough and uneducated, without a father figure, who wants to “do what he wants.” Huck again relates his desire for freedom as he is floating down the Mississippi: “We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft” (88). As a boy, Huck is somewhat naive to the reality of life. He wanted to escape: escape being “sivilized,” escape the manners Mrs. Watson was enforcing, and escape the hypocritical, religious morality he was being taught in order to live a carefree life with his

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