Huckleberry Finn Archetypal Lens

In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, there are lessons and recurring events in the book that allow it to be viewed in many different ways. This can be done by examining plot points in the book through various literary lenses. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn can be explored and better understood through the feminist and archetypal lenses. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, having taken place in the 1830s, displays minority groups in a negative light or denies them a real role in the development of the novel. Specifically, the women in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, take a small role in the novel, they are not given a plot line. They are often stereotyped as not being able to do the same things as men. The

They will notice that the narrator is trying to give a character the same trait, and fit them into one narrative. Pap is given the Archetype of a villain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn when readers notice that Pap is consistently written as a ruthless person who is selfish and does not care about the protagonist's well-being. After Huck's father hears about the money that Huck has, he is interested in taking it for himself. Huck tells his father he does not have the money, and that Judge Thatcher has it. “Next day he was drunk, and he went to Judge Thatcher’s and bullyragged him, and tried to make him give up the money; but he couldn’t, and then he swore he’d make the law force him”(33). Pap is presented in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a character who will go to any extent he can to get what he wants. He is portrayed as authoritarian, and the type to be feared. He regularly puts himself first before others. He is willing to go to any measures to get what he wants, which further proves he is a selfish person. Huck is now recalling how his father used to treat him, and how widow Douglas had to step in to take care of him. Every little while he locked me in and went down to the store, three miles, to the ferry, and traded fish and game for whisky, and fetched it home and got drunk and had a good time, and licked me…The old man made me go to the skiff and fetch the things he had got. There was a fifty-pound sack of corn meal, and a side of bacon, ammunition, and a four-gallon jug of whisky…… ) (36). Huck's father puts his son in unsafe situations, while Huck is left alone and he is drinking to excess and beating his child. Pap is illustrated as the villain, because he is only caring about himself, and inflicting harm on others. Pap is acting irresponsibly when prioritizes alcohol, something that is not a necessity, over