Evil In Huckleberry Finn

Human beings live in an ever changing society. whether they know it or not, humans have learned to adapt and survive in the surroundings they are shoved into. But their ecosystem has struggled, their emotions have been tortured, and their options have been satirized. All of this comes at the expense of civilization. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the author pulls the reader into the perspective of a young rapscallion boy who begins a new life on the Mississippi River in the 1840s. He comes face to face with an unlawful civilization, mannered but hypocritical and morally wrong people, and the way they act towards others.

No two persons have the same definition on the world and the way to act in it. When Huckleberry …show more content…
As Huck steadily floats down the river with his raft once more, he faces two frauds that call themselves the Duke and the King. Both of these older men are liars, crooks, and swindling cheats that have gone rouge on humanity. They live life as “a person [who] does a low-down thing, and then he don’t want to take no consequences of it” (301). Huck seems to admire them at first thinking that they truly are legitimate, acceptable men; but as time passes, so does the realization that the Duke and the King are not who they say they are. Huck sees the schemes and the tricks that they pull on innocent people and he is absolutely disgusted. He even considers their lies bad “enough to make a body ashamed of the human race” (235). With the actions that the Duke and the King had done, Huck doesn’t even dare to think of them as people. When the law finally catches up with the Duke and the King, readers think that Huck would be relieved or even grateful because of it. But he isn’t at all, instead he feels sadden from it. The guilt weighs down his heart and feels that “human beings can be awful cruel to one another” (325). Huck detest many things such as rules, laws, and most of all consequences, even when they are not even faced towards