Written Assignment
In the book an element predominant is the critical to the Romanticism. This critical is represented in the two important chapter: Huck and Tom Sawyer and in how they relate. Tom Sawyer represents the Romanticism. He is a dreamer, he wants to be adventurous but the deeds he does are just imagination. Huck is the completely opposite. He is very realistic and practical. The society generally follow Tom’s model and is for that reason that Huck can judge it and notice the bad in it from an outward point of view.
The critical of Romanticism can be noticed in the arrival of Tom. Huck had to free Jim, he wanted to free him because he loves him as a friend. To do that he was thinking to a simple and effective plan that would let him make Jim free with no problem. When Tom arrived e brought with him all his ideas of adventures, full of exciting details. Tom plan to free Jim was full of particularities and adventurous elements but it wasn’t effective as Huck’s one. Tom didn’t want to free Jim because they were friend but just to live and adventure.
The failure of Tom’s plan and so of the Romanticism, is represented when Tom got shot. He wanted to make a plan so full of adventurous elements that in the end it makes it more dangerous. The Romanticism is only something ephemeral that can be fantastic but that can’t have a practical application. It’s useless.
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