Huck Finn - Theme Flashcards

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legality vs. morality

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  • they don’t always go together well
  • go with what is moral before what is legal
  • legality and morality are often at odds
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society

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  • society punishes – seeks out deviance and punishes it

- society want sot maintain the status quo

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religion

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  • explores the hypocrisy of organized religion

- religion tends to prevent self-actualization

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family

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  • family doesn’t have to be blood
  • families can be racially diverse
  • families can be who we need them to be
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evil

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  • evil exists in many forms
  • Duke and the Dauphin
  • Tom Sawyer, in some ways
  • Huck in the beginning
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note

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  • sometimes illegal things can be moral (eat)
  • religion can prevent self-actualization
  • legality and morality are often at odds
  • evil exists in many forms
  • race shouldn’t matter
  • jim (not used to express evil)
  • progress comes from people
  • it holds him back from being moral
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