Gothic View In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

Gothic View in Huckleberry Finn

What if it was you? You had a father that only cared about your money, you ran away, you got shot at, and you have seen horrible things. When you put yourself into Huck’s place, you can see that what he had to deal with was things you wouldn’t want to see happen to anyone. The novel Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain skillfully reinforces the Gothic view of Human Nature.

Twain incorporates a profuse amount of violence into the novel. For being a 13-year-old kid Huck has seen a number of things including, the steamboat robbery, Pap’s death, the Shephardson and Grangerford feud, and the Sherburn-Boggs incident. Tom Sawyer even wants to commit violent acts that he learned through books. In Arkansas Huck sees people that are lazy and aren’t really happy about anything “unless it might be putting turpentine on a stray dog and setting fire to him, or tying a tin pan to his tail and see him run himself to

It regards slaves as not human beings. Even the good Christian people don’t treat them equally they view “blacks as the epitome of incivility, thus justifying their mistreatment” (Michael Taylor). In a romantic story everyone is treated as equals but in Huckleberry Finn black people aren’t even allowed to vote in a majority of the states but in the states they are allowed to vote people got angry and said, “I’ll never vote again” (Twain 33). The white people don’t want the black people to have any rights. People won’t do anything nice for slaves because they feel like they don’t deserve it. Huck is thinking about doing the right thing but then decides “All right, then, I’ll go to hell” and he tears up the note that he was going to send to inform Miss Watson where her slave is (Twain 250). People feel guilty when they do the right thing to help black people. They feel bad that they help some who in other people eyes is not good enough for