What internal conflicts or moral dillemmas does huckleberry finn have in regards to jim?

Question

this deals with the book The Adventures of Hucklebeerry finn.

Answer 1

I agree with the first answerer.

Huck grew up and was trained by his society in how to think about slaves. By his training, he felt sympathy for Jim's master but less sympathy for Jim. Huck's conscience bothered him that he was helping deprive Jim's master of her property (Jim).

It is very difficult for us today to imagine feeling sympathy for a slave owner and not sympathy for the slave but we didn't grow up in a society that trained us to think of slaves as more like property and less like humans.

Mark Twain shows us how our set of feelings that we call conscience is not a reliable foundation for morality. Conscience can be, and is, manipulated by our enviroment and by society. We need a standard for morality that is independent of changing circumstances.

Answer 2

Conflict In Huckleberry Finn

Answer 3

You'd have the best paper if you write about the Jim conflict. Huck is raised in a slave-owning border state, is used to slavery, probably can't stand abolitionists, and thinks runaway slaves are criminals who should be caught and probably hung. And then he meets Niggger Jim, who becomes a friend of his, and he just can't lump old Jim in with the rest of the runaway slaves, so he won't turn him in. And then Jim starts talking about getting his wife back, and Huck finds his view shifting back toward that of the rest of society, and wonders if he's becoming like the abolitionists. There is just so much going on with that situation, that you'd be able to get more direct information from the book. The stuff about how society views people will be much harder to find, and those are the two biggest internal conflicts he faces.

Answer 4

he is conflicted between everything he was taught about slaves and the reality of how Jim acts.