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In the novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, a character’s conscience and set morals have a great impact on his decisions he had made throughout the novel, his thoughts of what is right and wrong. Huck got himself into many tough situations, which taught him and effected the way he would approach other encounters. “Here is Twain’s major moral point: The only way to overcome the manifestly evil customs of organized society is to strip down the self to face the world and other human beings directly. One must think dearly beyond the self and confront whatever is out there” (Hoffman, 30). In the novel, Huck faces the world and creates his own morals, learning from experience.Society’s morals greatly affect a person’s actions and beliefs. When a person is raised in a certain environment, they are brought up with their society’s morals, assuming they are right, and anyone that goes against these morals are wrong and may be punished. Huck’s conscience thinks the way society thinks, but sometimes struggles on what he should do. “Twain is concerned with the inherited doctrine of conscience as ‘revelation,’ in contrast with the notion of conscience as merely the voice of the particular society in which a person h
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Approximate Word count = 1587
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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