Huck Budd Douglass
The world in which we live in now is much less oppressive than say the world lived in the middle of the 1800's. Up until the Civil War, the South depended on their 'peculiar institution' of slavery, in order to be productive a successful. Most people believed slavery was not wrong, but those who thought otherwise seldom tried to alter it. In general if surrounded by oppressive environment, one does not usually try to make a difference in that world. This is because people are afraid to defend what is right against a whole mass of people who believe otherwise. Huck Finn in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Billy Budd in Billy Budd, and Frederick Douglass in his autobiography all portray individuals who because of their good, innocent qualities go up against the oppression in their society. Living in an oppressive society does not always draw you to do the wrong thing you are still capable of generating change, whether it be for a certain individual or against a whole mass of people. Billy Budd starts off on the ship the "Rights of Man", Melville obviously showing his intent in the naming of the first ship. This shows that on this ship where Billy wanted to be and chose to be he had rights. That he and the other crew h
In Massachusetts he became an active anti-slavery lecturer. He looked to God to help him through and in the end that must have worked, for he escaped. Billy is a poor innocent boy with a childish stutter. While Huck doesn't think it is right Jim wants to free his family because they are someone else's property, he still notices that Jim has a family and wants to be with them. While most would agree that he should have gone with his moral side one realizes that Captain Vere is not evil. Covey is much like Claggart except for the degree of intelligence which Covey seemed to lack. And the king and the duke are the two people who bring the raft trip to an end. Billy tries to avoid Claggart because he has heard of his evil and does not want to deal with it. They are also alike in the fact they were both determine to uphold their jobs. During the trial we are shown Captain Vere's human side with his struggle to decide which is more important moral or legal. Huck and Jim are both alike in that they are both superstitious. Huck overcame society's oppression towards blacks for himself because he realized that Jim was a person and not a piece of property. Covey looks at Douglass as an animal, an ox, and treats him like one too. After finally realizing that Jim was human and that he should not give him back Huck does everything in his power to help Jim runaway. Captain Vere is torn here between doing the right thing morally and doing the right thing legally, and in the end he realizes he has sworn to uphold the law and does just that.
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