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

Throughout the novel, Huck creates his own morals. He combines society's morals and his own thoughts of what is right. " It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger-but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither," (Twain, 72). In Huck's environment, the people considered blacks as property, and only that. They were treated like animals, and supposedly had no feelings. Huck had begun to realize that Jim does have feelings, and that he needs to respect them. He then decides to approach Jim and show him that he cares. Huck realized that he did not feel bad about doing things his way and going against what society would have done. "But when he paraphrases the admonitions of his conscience they are incorporated into his own discourse" (Nash Smith, 149). Huck summarizes the two different points his conscience struggles with. He then decides which direction he should follow according to what his heart tells him. " But his socially trained conscience is not clean, and he realizes he 'can't pray a lie' (Hoffman, 39). Huck was not going to pray by lying to do what society would do. He creates his own way to deal with his problem. "¼Huck discards the moral code he has always taken for granted and resolves to help Jim in his escape from slavery" (Trilling, 323). During the time period harboring a run away slave, was a major offense. Huck goes against all of those risks and tries to help Jim escape from slavery, because that is what he feels he should do as a real friend. His feelings for Jim helped him go through with it, along with his conscience. Huck's strong relationship with Jim, his beliefs, and his condense came together to defeat society's ways and make his own morals.

Huck's conscience guides him into many directions effecting his actions and creating many morals for him. His conscience causes his thoughts to kick in, with the help of other characters. "I judged he wouldn't come back that night"(Twain, 30). Huck knew that his father was going out to get drunk and would not be back for a while. His conscience then lead him to believe that he needed to run away, to get away from his fathers abuse. "The most striking feature of this later crises, is the fact that Huck's conscience, which formerly had employed only secular arguments, how deals heavily in religio

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