Freedom And Bondage In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

The Portrayal of Freedom and Bondage in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the most recognizable theme is slavery. The entire plot revolves around Huck, the main character, trying to free Jim from slavery. Although slavery is the most prominent example of bondage, Mark Twain, the author, uses the theme of bondage, freedom, and slavery throughout the novel in many ways to add depth to the overall theme. Twain proves that people can be slaves in many ways other than a person being the property of another person. He also shows that some people can find freedom from what binds them, but other cannot. In the novel, many characters are slaves to their situations, families’ ideas, and religions. First, Huck is a slave to his family situation at the beginning of the novel. First, Huck believes he is trapped in a boring life of religious teachings living with Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas. Huck does not want to be stuck living a civil life, but the living arrangement is a product of Huck’s situation. Huck is a child

Buck does not question his family’s ideas because it is all he has ever known. He has always been taught to hate the Shepherdsons and to kill any member of the Shepherdson family if he sees one. He blindly follows his family’s traditions and does not question where the feud began or why it continues. He is a slave to his family’s ideas because he does not know any different. Buck, a young boy, is willing to die and kill for a cause he knows nothing about. The only things he is taught come from his family and from his Church, and no one in his family practices what is taught in Church, or the feud would not exist. Buck is shot and dies believing that he was a part of a cause worth his life. He does not find freedom and the rest of the Grangerford and Shepherdson families continue to be slaves to a feud none of them know anything