Mark Twain's novel The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn is one of the most contradictory and romantic novels in American history. A story written in a time and place where racism dominated America, about a young boy Huckleberry Finn, raised to be racist, forming a powerful friendship with Jim, a runaway slave. In the novel Twain uses the symbol of The Mississippi River to represent a way to potential freedom for Huck and Jim. Throughout the novel Twain also aids his dissenting opinion towards slavery with the use of the Biblical allusion of Satan as a serpent and the metaphor of the fog upon the river to create ideas exposing slavery as unnecessary proving his reasoning of slavery being unjust. Twain uses the symbol of the river because…show more content… The biblical allusion is seen when Jim and Huck are on an island as equal humans. Huck decides to play a trick on Jim hiding a snake which bites Jim and cripples the black man tearing apart the paradise of the island. Huck regrets this saying “I wish I’d never seen that snake-skin, Jim — I do wish I’d never laid eyes on it. " Twain uses this allusion to help his audience better understand as the snake alludes to Satin in the story of Adam and Eve in which he is a serpent who ruins the paradise of Adam and Eve. More reasoning for Twain's use of this allusion is it also has a symbolic meaning where the snake and devil represent slavery crippling an innocent black man ruining life for an innocent human as it does in the case of slavery, the snake on the island, and the Biblical story of Adam and Eve. Twain uses this as further proof to his idea of slavery being morally wrong as it only results in the destruction of the innocent. To conclude Mark Twain's view of slavery being morally wrong and hurtful to many is seen very easily in his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The symbol of the river, the metaphor of the fog, and the Biblical allusion to Satin are good points Twain implements in his novel to express to the audience his view on how slavery is
