The conflict between Ideals and Reality in The Adventues of

The Conflicts between Ideals and Reality in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Contents

Contents………………………………………………………………………………... i 摘要……………………………………………………………………………………. ii Abstract………………………………………………………………………………... iii I. Introduction………………………………………………………………………….. 1 II. The Literature Review of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn…………………… 2 2.1 Writing Background………………………………………………………….... 2 2.2 The Work and Author…………………………………………………………... 2 2.3 The Conflict in the Work………………………………………………………. 4 III. The Conflicts between Ideals and Reality in the Work……………………………. 4 3.1 The Conflicts between Ideals and Reality in Racial Relation…………………. 4 3.1.1 The History of American Racism and Slavery……………………………4 3.1.2 The Racial Relation between White and Black in the Work……………...5 3.2 The Conflicts between Ideals and Reality in Morality………………………….7 3.2.1 Innocence and Vice………………………………………………………. 7 3.2.2 Lie and Truth……………………………………………………………... 8 3.2.3 Huck?s“Sound Heart ”and Deformed Conscience…………………… 9 IV. Conclusion………………...………………………………………………………. 10 References…...…………………………………………………………………………10 Acknowledgments…………………………………………………………………….. 12

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摘 要

《哈克贝利费恩历险记》是美国文学史上一部巨大的演义。自从它 1884 年初次出版至现在，仍旧有许多有关的研究成果从种种不同的角度对它进行了解读。哈克贝利费恩历险记不仅是一部探索当时种族与道德世界的小说，而且书中描写的道德问题与种族问题直到今天仍然困扰着我们，围绕它的持久争论使其成为不朽的作品。论文主要是对《哈克贝利费恩历险记》理想与现实之间的矛盾冲突做了扼要剖析。小说中哈克和吉姆代表理想，然而他们周围的人们和社会代表现实。两方在种族关系、教育和道德观方面有着强烈的冲突。黑人与白人的种族关系是研究理想与现实冲突的重要角度；哈克和吉姆社会处境的对比是最好的例子。在道德观方面，论文主要通过天真与伪善，谎言与事实和哈克内心的自我冲突来体现的。通过研究，揭露社会的伪善以及拥有黑奴的社会不可能是一个公平的社会，无论他如何相信或宣称自己是多么的“文明”.

关键词：《哈克贝利费恩历险记》 理想与现实 矛盾冲突

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Abstract

In American literature, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a great novel. Since it was published in 1884, studies about this novel have interpreted it from many different aspects. The novel emerges as a novel that explores the racial and moral world of its time. It also controversies that continue to surround it as an artifact of those same moral and racial tensions as they have evolved into the present day. The theme of this paper is to make a simple analysis of the conflicts between ideals and reality in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In the novel, delegate of ideals are Huck and Jim, while delegate of reality are the social people around them. The two clash each other over racial relationship, education and morality. Racial relationship between white and black is a the important aspect to reflect the conflict between the ideals and reality, comparison of social situation between Huck and Jim is fully embodiment. In the morality, I will reflect conflict through innocence and vice, lie and truth and Huck?s a change of heart. Through this paper reveals the hypocrisy of society and demonstrates how impossible it?s for a society that owns slaves to be just, however“civilized that society believes and proclaims itself to be”

Key Words: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ideals and reality conflict

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The Conflicts between Ideals and Reality in The Adventures of

Huckleberry Finn

I. Introduction

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Mark Twain?s masterpiece. This story takes place in American of Civil War around 1850 in the Mississippi River. Yet this novel affects some people in principles and rules. It took highly influential and much admired by writer and reader, but it ever was the most controversial and frequently banned in American literature. The book was banned because of revealing the hypocrisies of slaveholders on the south. However, the majority of contemporary one of the reviewers and later commentators find praiseworthy of the novel: Ernest Hemingway says all American writing comes from this novel. The reviewer H. L. Mencken announces ?Huckleberry Finn? is one of the well-known masterpieces of the world. ?Don Quixote? says it is the full equal. Some critics have commented it from many angles such as race, class, religion and so on. Some critics have focused on this novel?s language, style and themes from different aspects. From the 1950s on, academic critics begin to discuss the nature of Huck, the novel?s structure, the psychology of its hero; some reviewer start to discuss picaresque adventure which remains an ongoing concern. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, slavery has been abolished for twenty years, but black haven?t gain freedom. White and black are not equal in right or social situation. Black is the poverty of white. Racial relationship is important conflict in the novel. Racism is always essential debate. Social morality is another important conflict. Morality is social spirit. Twain writes from a boy?s perspective, and adult?s the hypocrisy and cruelty. This paper will mainly show the conflict between ideals and reality in The Adventures of

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Huckleberry Finn. For people clearly understanding, this paper firstly introduces some basis information about this novel.

II. The Literature Review of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

2.1 Writing Background

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn shows the real scenes of American society. It?s produced by prevalent national issues of the day. The novel is based on American society of 1850s and is set on the eve of American Civil War.

The Civil War was long drawn out. After four years, the North crushed the South, which not only maintained the territorial integrity of the United States, but kept an economic prosperous. However, this also brought some problems, like evil and crime obviously increase. In American the old custom and conventions still stayed. The slavery has been abolished, but black don?t get equality and freedom because some states of the south still try to the best to deprive the former especially black slave?s right through laws. In American, racism is more severe. Reconstruction, the political program have conscious to revolt South and make it into the Union as non-slave states, began to fail, but the south is heavy beaten. The victorious south keep power in their own regions, Southern states and individuals start to try the best to control and deprive the black men and women that the war had freed. The prevailing social values made racial discrimination rather severe. The black had extremely low status and they were always in a position of slavery and persecution. Through the two of fighting in the novel reflected the ugly social problems. In the work, Huck is major character. With Huck?s adventures, Mark Twain on the One hand, showed great concern for the good nature of human beings and symbolized America?s rises, on the other hand, strongly criticize on the society he lived in.

2.2 The Work and Author

The author is pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Mark Twain is his pen name. He grows in the small town of Hannibal on the Mississippi River. When he was

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