In the satirical novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, one of the most consistent themes is the idea that other people’s morals and laws can often conflict with higher ethical values or personal beliefs. The author uses several different perspectives to portray the contradiction between characters’ individual values. For example, Huck finds civilized life too restricting for his carefree ways. Not caring for manners, appearance, or social norms, he refuses to be civilized by the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson and escapes the boundaries of society on the raft, preferring the freedom and independence that wilderness gives him. Another example of Huck’s conflicting sense of morality is when he decides that the duke and dauphin
