The Issue between Bennett and Hallie

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In Jonathan Bennett's The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn, he chooses 3 people one fictional the other two real, and analyzes how they handle the conflict between their own sympathies and the morals of their society at that place in time. He chose Huckleberry Finn, Nazi S.S. leader Heinrich Himmler, and Calvinist Jonathan Edwards.

Bennett goes on in his article stating that one is wrong or bad if they let their morals over run their sympathies when they feel conflict between sympathy and morality or "bad morality." Bennett considers "bad morality" when "a morality whose principles I deeply disapprove of."

Throughout his article he goes to state examples to what he feels is the conflict,

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Approximate Word count = 494
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels

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