Huckleberry Finn Romanticism
The romantic period was a time of revolt against rationalism. Romanticism emphasized imagination, emotion, and whimsical feeling. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain romanticism is taken very lightly as a joke. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain mocks the romantic period through Pap's cabin, the feud of the Grangerford's and Shepherdson's, and Jim’s race. Mark Twain pokes fun at romanticism, through Pap’s cabin because romantic writers believed that both truth in one self, and a simple life was found in nature. Pap on the other hand lives in a cabin surrounded with nature, however, he does not fulfill the expectations that a romanticwriter has for people in nature. Pap is not a good father
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Romanticist strongly supported the abolishment of slavery and believed every person was born good, black or white. However, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain writes, “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn't do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn't done that one if I'd a knowed it would make him feel that way.” (Twain 97). We can infer from this quote that before Huckleberry realized that racism isn't necessary he was racist as well because that's all he had ever known. This is poking fun at the romantic period because of the lack of equality and belief that everyone is born into this world equal and good. Before Huck changes his opinion on rancism he believed that blacks like Jim were a piece of property. We know this because Twain writes, “Here was this nigger, which I had as good as helped to run away, coming right out flat-footed and saying he would steal his children—children that belonged to a man I didn't even know; a man that hadn't ever done me no harm.” (Twain 99). According to this quote Jims children belonged to someone else. It was not the fact that they lived with someone else, they actually belonged to someone else, as if they were a piece of
Romanticist strongly supported the abolishment of slavery and believed every person was born good, black or white. However, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain writes, “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn't do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn't done that one if I'd a knowed it would make him feel that way.” (Twain 97). We can infer from this quote that before Huckleberry realized that racism isn't necessary he was racist as well because that's all he had ever known. This is poking fun at the romantic period because of the lack of equality and belief that everyone is born into this world equal and good. Before Huck changes his opinion on rancism he believed that blacks like Jim were a piece of property. We know this because Twain writes, “Here was this nigger, which I had as good as helped to run away, coming right out flat-footed and saying he would steal his children—children that belonged to a man I didn't even know; a man that hadn't ever done me no harm.” (Twain 99). According to this quote Jims children belonged to someone else. It was not the fact that they lived with someone else, they actually belonged to someone else, as if they were a piece of