Examples Of Romanticism In Huckleberry Finn

Nonconformity leads to romantic writing and original thought. Romanticism is a writing style movement in which writers enjoyed more fantastical expressions of their inner emotions. There are many aspects of romantic writing, usually revolving around nature, man, or God. This type of writing leads to writers having original thoughts and usually encourages them to speak out against current opinion in order to express that thought. The opposite view is realism, which is a view that looks at scenes and characters in a practical sense. The United States became realistic after the harsh reality of the Civil War, “Before the war, idealists championed human rights, especially the abolition of slavery; after the war, Americans increasingly idealized
First, Huck, the main char and Jim travel on the river together and Huck finds himself having his own original thoughts about race and morality. Huck finds himself worrying about what might happen to Jim because he finds Jim to be a person just like him, “if he didn't get saved he would get drownded; and if he did get saved, whoever saved him would send him back home so as to get a reward, then Miss Watson would sell him sure. Well, he was right; he was most always right; he had an uncommon level head” (Twain ch 14). This represents Huck’s individuality and his ability to form his own good conscience. This romantic writing, in turn, is what leads Huck to truly struggle with his decision. Earlier, Huck lies to Jim in order to trick him, but eventually feels bad for what he does, “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble
First, Huck finds himself becoming civilized by the Widow Douglas, a widow how has taken Huck in as a child, “Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me. But she wouldn't. She said it was a mean practice and wasn't clean, and I must try to not do it any more. That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it. Here she was a-bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody, being gone, you see, yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it. And she took snuff, too; of course that was all right, because she done it herself” (ch 1). In this quote, Twain is embodying the realistic attribute of social critique. He is criticizing the fact that the Widow Douglas wanted to civilize Huck even though she herself is not civilized. Next, Huck finds himself analyzing the social class of the people he finds on land, “They generly had on yellow straw hats most as wide as an umbrella, but didn’t wear no coats nor waistcoats, they called one another Bill, and Buck, and Hank, and Joe, and Andy, and talked lazy and drawly, and used considerable many cuss words” (ch 21). Another aspect of realistic writing is when people analyze social class. Huck is criticizing the social class of the people through what they wear and how they