Violence In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

Violence is a weird concept. People hurting and killing each other over a problem that most likely could’ve been solved peacefully. Well, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, violence is a very prominent motif throughout the entire story. One example of this that sticks out from the rest is when Huck meets the Grangerford family. He learns that for 30 years, the Grangerfords have been in a feud with another family called the Shepherdsons. In the passage on pages 107 -109, Mark Twain uses point of view along with allusion and tone in order to voice his opinion on the silliness of the civil war and on violence in general.
In the passage, Twain also uses tone to show his message . Buck explains the event that started the feud to

He uses an allusion from the feud between the Montagues and Capulets in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to express his big idea that violence is pointless. Buck describes feud like this, “a feud is this way: A man has a quarrel with another man, and kills him; then that other man’s brother kills HIM; then the other brothers, on both sides, goes for one another; then the COUSINS chip in—and by and by everybody’s killed off, and there ain’t no more feud. But it’s kind of slow, and takes a long time.” This quote not only shows that there really is no use in violence, but it also shows the stupidity of people like them for fighting without a real purpose. It’s just like in Romeo and Juliet where once again we can see families fighting.
Imagine a world without war where countries settle disputes peacefully instead of going to war. To most people this world doesn’t sound too bad. Twain tries to show that one day everyone will have to put their guns aside and learn to get along whether they like it or not. He weaves this message into many different parts of Huckleberry Finn through not only allusion, but also the point of view and tone of the characters. It is a very important message in the book and for