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The setting of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the Southern area of United States which has a contradictory system such as slavery. Through this work Mark Twain showed that racial discrimination, the cruelty of human beings and the hypocrisy of religious life that were realities of social corr...

The setting of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the Southern area of United States which has a contradictory system such as slavery. Through this work Mark Twain showed that racial discrimination, the cruelty of human beings and the hypocrisy of religious life that were realities of social corruption in those days. He represented the loss and moral corruption of the human beings throughout the southern states to define with his own realistic style from Huck. Huck wanted to escape from civilized society, so he attempted traveling down the Mississippi, Huck took a chance toward gaining his maturity going further than expected bu meeting Jim. What makes Huck's growth possible alid in the warm humanity and true heart of Jim. This is quite different from the bias toward blacks that underlie in Huck's mind from the civilized society at that time. Black people did not mean anything but were thought of as a kind of lifeless things that wete illiterate, unemotional and all but obedient to white people. Jim readily helped Huck to break this bias and realize his ignorance about racial superiority. Jim is finally regarded as the key character that brought about Huck's moral development. What Huck's moral development indicates is that he weighed heavier meaning on his underlying conscience when he felt conflict between the social conscience and the inner moral conscience. Moreover, the character who brought the victory of this moral conscience was not anybody but Jim. Huck undergoes another hardship because people encountered from civilized society while traveling along the Mississippi. A cruel murderer pointing a gun at his colleague for a penny, a meeting with the king and the dukes who trouble people by the same menas as common crooks are seen as examples. They bore the atrocity and lies of human beings that Huck wanted to resist and get himself out of. They, therefore, were so vicious that they turned even nature into a space where Huck could not fine peace. Despite of that, Huck expressed himself as a figure of innocence humanist whose sympathy goes toward them they are in danger, while he comes back to his raft so distressed over the cruelty of villagers at the riverside who inflict a blow to the king and the dukes. There is no doubt that this innocent conscience played the biggest role of Huck's moral and social growth. Huck cast doubt on the reliability of the social notion because of hypocrisy, lies and the cruelty experienced by the riverside society, which grew to be an experience for social growth which opened himself to his inner conscience. Huck, nothing but a immature boy at the beginning of the novel, mentally matures while going through various incidents, meeting Jim. Mark Twain whistles a wake-up call against a fiction and the corrupt morality of society of the southern area of the States through the progress of Huck's mental growth. And he was questioning how civilized the society really was. Many of the civilized people he encountered were more savage than the savage people(like Jim) were. His intention like this must not be ignored, even while living in this current age.

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