The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Slavery

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promised not to tell but worries
that people will “call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for
keeping mum....” (43). During the course of their journey, the line that
Huck envisions between himself and Jim becomes increasingly fainter.
Society and its mores seem extremely distant and remote from the simple yet
ideal life Jim and Huck lead on their raft.
Just as slavery was an almost universally recognized practice in
Huckleberry Finn’s world, the supposed inferiority of women has been an
accepted idea in more recent times. Into the twentieth century a woman was
not considered an equal member of American society. The traditional role
of a woman as a wife, a mother and a housekeeper remained unquestioned
until World War I. Those few women and men who strove for equality between
the genders were deemed radicals. Come wartime, however, women proved that
they could adequately perform the same jobs as men with no difference in
productiveness. This discredited the popular ...

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