Huckleberry Finn Critics
- Created by: PsychoMunchkin
- Created on: 19-04-22 15:49
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- Huck Finn Critics
- Morality
- Steven Mintz (Rethinking Huck)
- "the extent to which individual and collective morality can be at odds"
- "At the novel's very heart lies the conflict between Huck Finn's instincts and his conscience"
- "juvenile delinquent"
- "white trash"
- "in rejecting the 'deformed conscience' of the civilised world, he has instead, aligned himself with the 'good heart' of a mature human being"
- Steven Mintz (Rethinking Huck)
- Adventure
- "his journey down the Mississippi is a symbol, representing the traditional rite of passage, the movement from boy to man"
- Prejudice
- "Huck does not transcend racism, which would historically be unlikely"
- Society
- Morality
- Steven Mintz (Rethinking Huck)
- "the extent to which individual and collective morality can be at odds"
- "At the novel's very heart lies the conflict between Huck Finn's instincts and his conscience"
- "juvenile delinquent"
- "white trash"
- "in rejecting the 'deformed conscience' of the civilised world, he has instead, aligned himself with the 'good heart' of a mature human being"
- Steven Mintz (Rethinking Huck)
- Morality
- Society
- "Huck does not transcend racism, which would historically be unlikely"
- Society
- Lies and Deceit
- Sanford Pinsker
- "Truth, in short, is one of those word - slippery, troublesome, but nonetheless, of great importance"
- Lionel Trilling
- Huck and Tom Sawyer do not "tell the ultimate lie of adults: they do not lie to themselves"
- Sanford Pinsker
- Morality
- Chris Sandford (Deconstructing Huck)
- "his journey down the Mississippi is a symbol, representing the traditional rite of passage, the movement from boy to man"
- "clash between his confused social decency and his need to escape"
- Nicolas Tredell (Voice, Identity, Race and Myth)
- "Huck articulates attitudes and values that are at odds to those of respectable society"
- "Huck does not transcend racism, which would historically be unlikely"
- "Huck articulates attitudes and values that are at odds to those of respectable society"
- Chadwick Hansen
- sees Jim as emerging from being "an insignificant ***** slave to becoming an abstraction of man"
- Prejudice
- William Phelps
- Twain shows "both points of view; he shows us the beautiful side of slavery - for it had a wonderfully beautiful, patriarchal side - and he shows us the horror of it"
- Sanford Pinsker
- "Truth, in short, is one of those word - slippery, troublesome, but nonetheless, of great importance"
- Lionel Trilling
- Huck and Tom Sawyer do not "tell the ultimate lie of adults: they do not lie to themselves"
- Leslie Gregory
- "Twain's juxtaposition of Jim the minstrel and Jim the human being is reflective of the ambiguity of black humanity in the late 1800s"
- Ralph Ellison
- "It is from behind this stereotype mask that we see Jim's dignity and human complexity"
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