Shaky ideals of Society:
The American ideals portrayed in this novel are utterly uncanny. The readers are led into the depth of society by focusing upon the daily life events of the American people. The character of Huck is someone with deep intellectual insight and he is not at comfort with how people are pursuing their lives by being divided into black and white. The slave and master system was eventually going to dismantle the foundations of society leading it to uncontrollable consequences (Twain, 4).
Twain intends to maintain the collective welfare in society by focusing upon the facts of society which were making it fall apart.
The society of that time was based upon three basic ills making it resistant place to live in peace for all. These included:
1.…show more content… Selfishness: the two dichotomy society was facing dilemma where each race had been in attempts to find their own values and how could they carry out their own profitability in society, often over the benefits of others.
2. Lack of Logic: illogical contentions were quite common. People knew that they would be treated according to their own racial system and so the white people took advantage of these basic norms prevailing. They often made the system to rule out against their black fellows. The slave system was in common and this made it possible for the masters to rule their slave without any questioning from the state or law.
3. Cowardice: the examples of system and acts provided in narrative provide how utterly coward was the people. The story of Sawyer and how Jim behaves provide the fact to readers that people were quite afraid of the disregard from whole society and this made them stay true to the values which were unjust and imbalanced.
Mark Twain has emphasized upon wrongful conventions of society and he depicted his dissatisfaction by characterizing Huck. He wanted the people of his times to know that they were wronged and they had to be treated with scratch building of
