Huck Finn - Theme Flashcards
1
Q
legality vs. morality
A
- they don’t always go together well
- go with what is moral before what is legal
- legality and morality are often at odds
2
Q
society
A
- society punishes – seeks out deviance and punishes it
- society want sot maintain the status quo
3
Q
religion
A
- explores the hypocrisy of organized religion
- religion tends to prevent self-actualization
4
Q
family
A
- family doesn’t have to be blood
- families can be racially diverse
- families can be who we need them to be
5
Q
evil
A
- evil exists in many forms
- Duke and the Dauphin
- Tom Sawyer, in some ways
- Huck in the beginning
6
Q
note
A
- 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