Freedom And Individualism In Mark Twain's Song Of Myself

What is the idea of freedom and Individualism during the 19th century? Mark Twain portrays satiric novel in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that illustrate how society in Huck’s point of view was corrupted antebellum south on the Mississippi River. His purpose of writing this novel is so he can get the message of how society is hypocritical, has a lack of individualism and their way of religion however, his larger purpose is for society to promote social change. Moreover, Walt Whitman delineates a free verse poem in “Song of Myself” published in 1855, that conveys how equality didn’t exist at the time when there was still a distinction between the blacks and whites. The ambition is to not just speak for himself, but for other mankind by admiring, amused and benevolent is the author's tone in order to credit his reasoning about how the blacks are no different than the whites in the era leading to the Civil War. …show more content…
The tone the author writes in, is a patriotic tone for all the individuals in the United States so that they would understand all the obstacles and hardships the soldiers experienced during the Civil War. Twain, Whitman, and McPherson introduced transcendentalism, individualism and freedom in order to express the significance of oneself. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain conveys Huck’s character as uneducated, illiterate, and honest; Widow Douglas feels she needs to civilize him because religion is the signifier of civilized and wants him to go to heaven rather than hell. Hucks illiteracy is portrayed as colloquial English: “... but that ain't no matter… she would sivilize me” (para. 1, 2). What’s been proven is how he is unenlightened. It’s been proven by the way he talks. The way he writes is also another way of how it’s been