The artistic feature in the novel Huckleberry Finn is unique. One distinguishing feature is that scenes of the shore and the river appear alternatively in the novel which forms an integrate part and combines the adven...The artistic feature in the novel Huckleberry Finn is unique. One distinguishing feature is that scenes of the shore and the river appear alternatively in the novel which forms an integrate part and combines the adventures of Huck and Jim as a whole. This paper tends to give a brief analysis of the symbolic meaning of the shore and the river respectively first, and then demonstrates the balance between them, thus getting a conclusion that Twain wants to show that the limitations which society places on the individual are what he disgusts, while the personal freedom which the Mississippi River symbolizes is just what he pursues.展开更多
文摘The artistic feature in the novel Huckleberry Finn is unique. One distinguishing feature is that scenes of the shore and the river appear alternatively in the novel which forms an integrate part and combines the adventures of Huck and Jim as a whole. This paper tends to give a brief analysis of the symbolic meaning of the shore and the river respectively first, and then demonstrates the balance between them, thus getting a conclusion that Twain wants to show that the limitations which society places on the individual are what he disgusts, while the personal freedom which the Mississippi River symbolizes is just what he pursues.