Huck Finn Nonconformity Analysis

Register to read the introduction… But some individuals stand up to authority figures, they are not intimidated by authority and will assert themselves rather than trying to please teachers, parents, bosses, judges and police officers etc. By turning their back on tradition, by casting off the trappings of social and cultural conventions, such individuals are libelled nonconformists; they are thus viewed and treated differently in society with possible varying results. Nonconformity should be admired and admonished, valued and reproved depending on the various situations it is applied to; nonconformity may have both positive and negative outcomes, ghastly consequences and excellent results. Generally, nonconformist attitude generates conflict between the individual and society. Over the years, conflicts between individuals and societies have brought about changes. …show more content…
Actually, the book was the first important American work to depart from European literary models. It used frontier humour, vernacular speech and uneducated young narrator to portray life in America. Twain’s attempt to capture the sound of vernacular speech is part of the novel’s realism and its documentary quality. As we read the novel, we listen to Huck Finn himself speak in a free wheeling vernacular, unconstrained by any of the common rules of grammar or formal speech. Moreover, Huck is bored with school, indifferent to religion, resentful of clothes, manners and all the basic requirements of living in group. Curiously, as he continues to reject to some teachings of his society, he matures morally and mentally. By close observation we may notice that the novel itself displays signs of nonconformism in both its content and its construction. Critics tagged the book to be nonconformist because it does not follow the conventional type of