In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by the Mark Twain, numerous archetypes can be identified using characters, Situations, and symbols that are able to be found in the book. Twain writes about a boy and an escaped slave and their Adventure down the Mississippi River and the troubles it brings them. An archetype is a character, event, story or an image that recurs in different works, in different cultures and in different periods of time. Examples of archetypes within a novel’s characters include; The hero, outcast, shrew, scapegoat, sage, innocent youth, and the jester. Most all novels use situational archetypes which can include; The quest, The loss of innocence, The initiation, or can be a symbol like water. After reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, two archetypes can be identified. The outcast, who is Huckleberry Finn, and the quest in which Huck and Jim take on.
Huckleberry, in the novel, is the outcast in the fact that he was from the start not in a normal household of the times. Huckleberry Finn fits the outcast archetype. He doesn't fit in with those around him, and doesn't agree with the commonplace opinions. Huckleberry throughout the book did not see slaves as just slaves, but as people unlike the rest of the people and it's times. On the journey…show more content… Mark Twain showed that archetypes are a methodical and excellent way to bring characters to life in a story, and for the reader to understand the characters better. Throughout Huckleberry Finn and Jim's Adventures they learn to adapt and rewire themselves to become the best person they want to be. Nothing is going to hold them back from doing what they want to do. All in all, Archetypes played a key role in the development of characters and the storyline throughout the
