What distinguishing feature of realist literature does Mark Twain often use in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

Answer 1

Huck is skeptical towards romanticism just like he is towards religion. He doesnt want to believe in anything that doesnt have a known outcome like religion. Twain contrasts Tom's romanticism and Huck skepticism to show that both points of view can prove equally misleading if taken to extremes. An example: when Tom is trying to get the boys to join a gang and uses "books" he has read to lead the group. These books come from Europe and therefore have a lot of Romanticism in it which is why he is a romantic.

Answer 2

One distinguishing feature of realist literature that Mark Twain often uses in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is the portrayal of everyday life and language of ordinary people. Twain's use of dialect, vernacular speech, and realistic settings helps to create a vivid and authentic depiction of American life in the 19th century, particularly in the Southern United States.

Answer 3

By presenting seemingly factual occurrences of an adventurous life, Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnexplores the large idea of 'Realism' as its element.

Though the characters and incidents are fictitious, the place of the setting, the behaviors of the people described in the book, the larger practices and ideas that the story explores and criticizes are factual and real because they really existed during the time the novel was written.

Racial prejudice, for example, was a normal undertaking of the time and this real aspect of the contemporary happening is explored and its practice is criticized in the book. Mark Twain does this by presenting a character of Jim, a black, having qualities and attributes that are completely inconsistent with what they were thought to have. Those supposedly undesirable qualities were in fact the reason for blacks to be treated that way. Jim however, does not posses such bad qualities.

Another criticism of slavery which was a daily practice in those times is portrayed with the help of the same character by making him possess all the qualities except those because of which blacks were treated as slaves.

Adventures, scenes and places are all real. The Mississippi River which is symbolized to be the way to freedom is a real river which helps in exploring real issue of the necessity of the freedom of people from the clutches of racism, slavery and intellectual hypocrisy.

The extent to which people in the novel resort to dishonesty and deceiving especially shown by the 'Duke' and the 'King' is a real issue of Twain's time that he criticizes as being signs of hypocrisy and the actions against the prevailing religious and moral doctrines

Exploring images of actual happenings of likelihood, twain justly portrays the elements of Realism in his novel.

Answer 4

Yes. Historical Fiction and Realistic fiction, plus a bunch of other genres.