Huck Finn Personal Maturity

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In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, demonstrates the idea of personal maturity in relation to the corruptness and cruelty of society. Lawrence Kohlberg a renowned phycologist claims that there are six stages to a person maturing, the ego centric reason, unquestioning obedience, what’s in it for me fairness, interpersonal conformity, responsibility to “the system”, and principled conscience. In the beginning and middle of the novel we see these stages shape Huck who can make bounds and leaps forward but can also fall back to his old ways. In the beginning of the novel Huck starts at the first stage of personal maturity and dictates his own maturely development despite the corruptness and cruelty of society. It can be seen when he asks the widow why and for what reasons she prays. She tells him that he must pray for “spiritual gifts” and that “[he] must help others, and do everything [he] could for other people, and look out for them all the time, and never think about [himself]…but [he] couldn’t see no advantage about it—except for the other people”. Huck who currently lives in the ego centric stage of personal maturity decides to just not worry about the topic of prayer and helping other people. Following this discussion with the widow, Huck encounters his degrading father who instructs him to “drop that school”. Huck’s father never received a …show more content…
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