Analysis of Huck’s Character in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn英语专业毕业论文

1、Analysis of Hucks Character in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Abstract: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of Mark Twains masterpieces. The protagonist Huck Finn is a veritable recreation of several living models. The portrayal of this character achieves intense verisimilitude in details. Huc

2、k Finn desires to be free and escapes from a civilized world. Huck Finn is shrewd, ingenious, good and noble. These qualities help him to avoid dangers and difficulties during the travel. Huck, as a child, has a lot in common with other children. He loves nature and has many emotional fluctuations.

3、However, many his good qualities are against the western original-sin theory. In addition, Huck, a teenager with his nature of a little disobedience, is always pursuing freedom. His cruel father and the civilized widow chain him and make him zealous of liberation. Meanwhile, Jims slavery liberation

4、promotes Huck to pursue freedom.When Huck helps Jim run away, he experiences much. In communicating with Jim, he gradually changes his mind towards niggers and makes his own judgement. This point, the family situation as well as the mundane world make him more mature than his peers. Through the narr

5、ation of Huck Finn, Mark Twain demonstrates his deep-felt concern about the problem of personal freedom and the social limitations upon the individual. Key Words: Huck Finn; freedom; good; shrewd; mature摘要：?哈克贝利·费恩历险记?是马克·吐温的一部代表作。主人公哈克贝利·费恩是几个现实人物的再创作,通过细节描写逼真的刻化出其形象。哈克贝利·费恩反响敏捷

6、、足智多谋、为人善良、品德高尚,他的这些特性帮助他在旅途中平安躲过各种灾难和困难。 作为一个小孩子来说，哈克和其他小孩子有许多共同点。比方他热爱大自然，也容易产生情绪波动。然而，他还有许多其他孩子所没有的好品质。然而，他的许多好品质都是与西方的原罪说相悖的。另外，作为一个有一点叛逆性的青少年来说，哈克也在不断地追求自由。残酷的父亲和文明化的寡妇束缚了他，同时，束缚吉姆的奴隶制都促使哈克更期盼获得自由。在哈克帮助吉姆逃跑的整个过程中，哈克收获了不少。他在和吉姆交流时，逐渐地转变了他以往对于黑奴的看法并有了自己的见解。较同辈而言，对于奴隶制的看法以及家境和世俗促使他更加成熟。 通过对哈克贝利

7、83;费恩这一人物的塑造, 马克·吐温表露了他对个人自由问题和社会对个人束缚问题的关注。 关键词： 哈克贝利·费恩；自由；善良；敏捷；成熟Introduction Mark Twain is one of the best-known realist writers. In 1884, he published his most successful long novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in which he described that a white boy, Huck Finn, helped a black

8、slave, Jim, get rid of slavery and the destiny of being sold, finally, gain freedom. From Huck, we could see his deference and disobedience. He had strongly struggled with his ideas about whether he should help Jim run away or not, which was the highlight of the novel, and further depicted the artis

9、tic value and aesthetic value of this novel. The story is close to the reality, believable,and showcases the critical attitude of Mark Twain towards the slavery. This novel has outstanding achievements in American literature even in the worlds literature history. Huck Finn is very kind, smart and br

10、ave. He loves the nature and has strong desire for freedom. These qualities are showed through vivid description, figures of speech and dedicated actions. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain has fully revealed the paradoxical psychology and the mental development of Huck. He not only w

11、atches the general emotional changes of the childrens superficial psychology, but also understands the opponent factors in the deep heart of innocent children and the complex struggle of these factors, and then put them in the concrete society and cultural background, therefore, he demonstrates the

12、root causes of these factors. This novel exposes the social system, echoes the voice of the common people and encourages people to pursue freedom.This paper reveals the characters of Huck, and analyses the chief causes of formation of each character, on the basis of others research. Hucks cruel and

13、brutal father and the widow Douglas have fettered his nature, the influence of Tom and the limitation of that society have forced him to long for freedom. Of course, just as other children, Huck likes playing, has a kind heart and is sincere to people. Thus, the contrast of his good qualities with t

14、hose of other people struggling in the reality is very apparent showing the goodness of Huck and the darkness of the society. Through helping Jim escape, Huck has experienced a lot, established profound friendship with Jim and abandoned the previous old ideas toward the black. In this process, Huck

15、has gradually matured mentally and physically. Chapter1 Hucks Good Qualities and the Causes Huck, as a child, has a lot in common with other children. He loves nature and has many emotional fluctuations. However, he has many good qualities, such as shrewdness, ingeniousness, goodness and nobleness,

16、which are against the western original-sin theory.1.1 Hucks Good Qualities Huck is sometimes delighted and sometimes worried. He is attracted by the great nature, by its picturesque scenery. Besides, he is very smart and brave in dealing with affairs.As a child, his emotion is not stable, sometimes

17、happy, sometimes sorrowful and upset. For example, in the novel, Huck has always said some words, such as “I most wished I was dead1, “I really wouldn't like to live on2, which reflect that he is gloomy and feels hopeless when he has no one to chat with or when he has fierce psychological strugg

18、le. Mark knows this delicate and complicated psychology of growth and writes it vividly.Loving the great nature is childrens nature, just as Mark Twain describes in the book, “I don't care rain, because it is warm.3 In the nature, Huck feels warm, free and finds the world beautiful and tranquil.

19、 It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didnt ever feel like talking loud, and it warnt often that we laughed only a little kind of a low chuckle.4Since Huck thinks that the Nature feels as lonely as him, he regards the nature a

20、s one of his best friends, thus, talks about everything with it. Children are born with optimistim, happiness, nature-lover and longing for a nice world, therefore, in their eyes, each tree and grass has its life and magic charm, and the nature often becomes their paradise.Mississippi River provides

21、 him a totally different living circumstance compared with his home. The greatness of the nature calms down Huck and makes him intoxicate with the beautiful landscape. He is so cozy as to take Mississippi as the paradise, which provides food and freedom for Jim and him, where they can bring their po

22、tential into full play. They have an easy and quiet life there and relax thoroughly. Simplicity and sincerity the chilrens nature are perfectly integrated with the great Nature in the portrayal by Mark Twain, an uncomparable classic picture that makes people unforgottable. It is no doubt that Huck i

23、s very fond of playing. The meeting with Tom is a good example. At middle night, when the clock in the town clicks twelve, Tom comes with the signal “Me-yow! Me-yow. They start a band of robbers named Tom Sawyers Gang. A group of children join it. And Tom, as the organizer, makes a series of rules,

24、oaths and steps of robbery out of pirate-books and robber-books.It swore every boy to stick to the band, and never tell any of the secrets; and if anybody done anything to any boy in the band, whichever boy was ordered to kill that person and his family must do it, and he mustnt eat and he mustnt sl

25、eep till he had killed them and hacked a cross in their breasts, which was the sigh of the band. And his name blotted off of the list with blood and never mentioned again by the gang, but have a curse put on it and be forgot forever.5 These words seem funny and childish, but attractive to the inexpe

26、rienced children. Especially, when the gang talk over the family of Huck his father, not knowing alive or not they intend to rule him out. This indeed drives Huck a little worried because, if so, he can not play and will be isolated from the group, which is unaccepted by children. The experience on

27、Mississippi also can fully show his love for fun. Huck Finn is shrewd and ingenious. He is both intelligent and very inventive. Although he is uneducated, nature teaches him a lot of things. When he first suspects that his father has returned, Huck Finns immediate action is to try to give all his mo

28、ney to Judge Thatcher so that he wont be persected by his father. This is the first time that Huck Finn shows his shrewdness: that is, he knows that his father will leave him alone if he has no money and since he dreads an encounter with his father, he tries to give away the money so that he wont ha

29、ve to lie. Huck Finns plan for an escape from his father also demonstrates his shrewdness and ingenuity as well as his profound common sense. When his father has gone into town he cuts a hole in the wall of the cabin. He kills a pig and spinkles its blood around so that his father will think that he

30、 has been murdered by robbers. And no one can find him. Hucks shrewdness and ingenuity stand him in good stead in many difficult and dangerous situations which he is about to encounter on the river. Huck Finn disguises himself as a girl into the village to see what is happening there. He invents a b

31、elievable story to conceal his real identity. When he is unable to remember his name which he tells, he often has to resort to another ruse or shrewd trick in order to find out what he has said earlier. He seldom has a particular plan in mind, but, instead, he relies upon his native ability. And whi

32、le he takes off his disguise, he is able to construct another story which gets him out of difficulty. When Huck Finn and Jim travel on the river, two slave hunters want to search their raft. Before they get there, Huck Finn tells them the impression that there is a man with smallpox on the raft so t

33、hat he could protect Jim. Huck Finns shrewdness and ingenuity are both seen in the story which he tells the man and more directly, in his knowledge that the man, being selfish and narrow, will not help him. This also shows that Huck Finn has a profound knowledge of human nature. Huck Finn also uses

34、his knowledge of human nature to protect himself and Jim. He makes up a story with Jim which the king and duke believe. He sees through their facade and is able to make his own story credible. Huck Finns insight suggests his knowledge of human nature, a knowledge which has the practical purpose of p

35、rotecting both. After separating with Jim, Huck Finn goes ashore alone and finds a large house. He uses his shrewdness again and creates another new identity for himself. When he forgets his name, he has to be shrewd enough to conceive a plan whereby Buck Grangerford has to spell his name. Huck Finn

36、 has such an understanding of people that he easily gulls a boy with the same age, one who loves to show off his knowledge of spelling, into spelling Huck Finns assumed name. Then he is able to rediscover his new identity.1.2 The Western Original Sin and Hucks GoodnessThe western original sin holds

37、that everyone is born with sin, that the whole life of a person is atonement and that the root nature of person is evil. However, Huck has the good and noble nature, which is against the original sin. Mans primary cultural tradition is the religious belief. The ancient Hebrews religions Judaism and

38、its variation Christianity, especially the latter, have always been the westerners primary spiritual support during the recent 2000 years. Most of westerners are followers of Christianity. The idea held by Christian Bible and Theology concerning human nature “the nature of person is born evil is uni

39、versally accepted by the westerners. They believe that everyone is born with sin and guilt which are from their ancestors Adam and Eve, because they steal the fruit of wisdom, thus, understand the matter of shame for men and women. Even so, Huck Finn is kind-hearted, good and noble. He is a good exa

40、mple of vetoing the original sin theory. He proves that mans nature is good, rather than evil.All of his virtues come from his good heart and his sense of humanity. The contrast between his physical raggedness and his highly civilized nature is an ironic reversal of the predominant situation in the

41、novel where a pleasing surface usually conceals a corrupt or barbaric reality, as in the Grangerford household. Huck Finns goodness is always subconscious and spontaneous, arising out of the deepest recesses of his nature. He concerns about the drunk man in the circus. He shows sympathy for the niec

42、es of Peter Wilks and saves money for them. I says to myself, this is another one that Im letting him robber her of her money. And when she got through, they all just laid themselves not to make feel at home and know I was amongst friends.I felt so ornery and low down and mean, that I says to myself

43、, my minds made up; Ill hive that money for them or bust.6His sympathies even go to those who are totally unworthy of his attention such as the stranded robbers and the king and the duke. Huck Finns first thought after escaping is to save Jim Turner (a murderer) from being murdered by the other two

44、robbers. Even after his escape, he conceives of the clever plan of sending the man with the ferry in order to try and save the three robbers from death. Having attempted to save them, Huck Finn ironically and erroneously thinks that the Widow Douglas would be proud of him protecting the lives of the

45、se robbers. When the king and duke have been tarred and feathered, his comment on seeing the confident swindlers humiliated is wholly typical. I see they had a king and the duck astraddle of a rail that is, I knowed it was the king and the duke, though they was all over tar and feathers, and didnt l

46、ook like nothing in the world that was human just looked like a couple of monstrous big soldier plumes. Well, it made me sick to see it, it seemed like I couldnt ever feel any hardness against them any more in the world. It was dreadful thing to see human beings can be awful cruel to one another.7Hu

47、ck Finn witnesses many instances of cruelty, brutality and hypocrisy in the townships along the river. His response to all of them is sorrow and disgust. When he sees the depths of brutality to which the members of the Grangerford and Shepherdson families sink during the fend, he says, the man tun a

48、long the bank shouting at them and singing out, kill them, kill them! It made me so sick. I most fell out of the tree. I aint a going to tell all that happened it would make me sick again if I was to for that. I wished I hadnt ever come ashore that night to see such things. I aint ever going to get

49、shut of them lots of times I dream about them.8The king and duke are counting on the ignorance of the town people and the emotional upset caused by the death of Miss Wilkers uncle to separate the girls from their proper inheritance. Huck Finn rebels against the atrocious king and duke. He is disgust

50、ed with their trifling with human beings. It is because Huck Finn is such a good and noble person that his moral dilemma in helping a negro slave to escape constitutes a profound condemnation of the way of life and moral values of American south. His conscience has been formed by the morality of St

51、Petersburg and he never quite succeeds in freeing himself from that societys corrupt standards. Huck Finns formed conscience is the measure of the moral corruption of the community that shaped it. So he sinks into an inner struggle.He becomes increasingly caught between his friendship with Jim and t

52、he common social standards. Finally, he decides to tear up the letter which he has written to Miss Watson to inform and he chooses to be damned rather than to give Jim up to Miss Watson, All right, then, Ill go to hell - and to reit up. It was awful thoughts, and awful words, but they was said. And

53、I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming. I shoved the whole thing out of my head; and said I could take up wickedness again, which was in my line, being brung up to it, and the other wasnt. And for a starter, I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again; and if I cou

54、ld think up anything worse, I would do that, too; because as long as I was in, and in for good, I might as well go the whole hog.9 For Huck Finn the journey on the raft with Jim is a voyage of moral discovery. This is particularly the case in his relationship with Jim. At the early stage, Huck Finn

55、looks upon Jim as a negro slave with common attitude. However, as they progress down the river, he changes his mind and no longer has prejudice against black people. He gradually comes to see Jim as a human being and begins to accept him as his friend. Yet, Huck Finn never fully succeeds in breaking

56、 free from the prevailing attitude towards negroes.Chaper2 Hucks Pursuit of Freedom and the Causes Huck, a teenager with his nature of disobedience, is always pursuing freedom. His cruel father and the civilized widow chain him and make him zealous of liberation. Meanwhile, Jims slavery liberation p

57、romotes Huck to pursue freedom.2.1 The Causes of His Own: DisobedienceHuck has never parted with the great Nature, let us travel along with Huck on the Mississippi river, witness his growth and enjoy the tranqulity away from the chained civiliazation. On this river, through Hucks eyes, we can taste

58、the life and the mother river conceiving freedom. Huck lives like a duck in the water during this period. It shows a youngsters living skills, a childs tact and his courage for overcoming difficulties. He will never miss any chance to approach the nature and enjoy it.Soon as it was night out we shov

59、ed; when we got her out to about the middle we let her alone, and let her float wherever the current wanted her to; them we lit the pipes, and dangled out legs in the water, and talked about all kinds of things we was always naked, day and night, wherever the mosquitoes would made for me was too good to