Huck Finn, A Warning Against Romantic Philosophy

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain depicts the transition from Romantic thinking to an age of Realism, through the duality of the novel's two youthful friends Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, although best friends, posses an entirely different outlook on life and demonstrate Twain's emergence as one of the greatest realistic thinkers of literary history. Through Huck Finn, Twain illustrates the realist and his analysis of the hardships that plague everyday life, while Tom Sawyer represents the romantic who sees life on a superficial level, seeking the lov…