The writer analyzes the moral code within Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The writer depicts the meaning of a moral code and its differences in societies. The writer questions the origin of an individual's moral code. The writer analyzes the inevitable conscience, its power, and meaning. The writer depicts and interprets Mark Twain's thoughts on the conscience and society's moral codes. Individuals often face many decisions in life where they must decide what they believe as right and wrong and what society regards as right and wrong. In the 19th-century novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain depicts the development of a moral code and presents the guilty conscience as a flaw in individuals, therefore
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Individuals who support these moral codes are often seen as civil and remain socially acceptable. A simple way of understanding a moral view would be the thoughts, behaviors, actions, and characteristics a society deems as right and wrong. Society places a guideline or rule that individuals generally follow to live an equitable and acceptable life. These guidelines manage how individuals must act, dress, and treat others. The Widow tries to teach Huck the moral code of their society by depicting what society considers as right and wrong, in this case smoking cigarettes: “She said it was a mean practice and wasn’t clean, and I must try not to do it anymore” (Twain 15). Huck did not understand why society labels smoking as bad because his moral code does not perceive it as incorrect or immoral. Ordinarily civilized individuals seem to have more of a moral code because they are integrated into society and grow up within these beliefs. With that said, uncivilized individuals are regularly interpreted as unruly and immoral. Huckleberry Finn indulges in both the civilized and uncivilized societies, where he encounters many different moral beliefs. The Widow often tries to teach Huck what society sees as right and wrong, but he struggles because he endured his early childhood with his father Pap, whom society deems as uncivilized and
Individuals who support these moral codes are often seen as civil and remain socially acceptable. A simple way of understanding a moral view would be the thoughts, behaviors, actions, and characteristics a society deems as right and wrong. Society places a guideline or rule that individuals generally follow to live an equitable and acceptable life. These guidelines manage how individuals must act, dress, and treat others. The Widow tries to teach Huck the moral code of their society by depicting what society considers as right and wrong, in this case smoking cigarettes: “She said it was a mean practice and wasn’t clean, and I must try not to do it anymore” (Twain 15). Huck did not understand why society labels smoking as bad because his moral code does not perceive it as incorrect or immoral. Ordinarily civilized individuals seem to have more of a moral code because they are integrated into society and grow up within these beliefs. With that said, uncivilized individuals are regularly interpreted as unruly and immoral. Huckleberry Finn indulges in both the civilized and uncivilized societies, where he encounters many different moral beliefs. The Widow often tries to teach Huck what society sees as right and wrong, but he struggles because he endured his early childhood with his father Pap, whom society deems as uncivilized and