Huckleberry Finn's Moral Codes

Nature helps people make up their moral code and choose how that person wants to live. Once they make up their code they must accept the consequences of their moral code. The film “The God Father” directed by Francis Ford Coppola and the novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, written by Mark Twain, show two people, Huck and Michael, make up their moral codes. To make a proper moral code, one must need Nature, or God to help influence the construction of the moral codes. Huck makes the decision to go out to Nature to form his moral code and while in nature he decides to go ahead with his plan and help free Jim. He went against society in this decision and even accepts he is doing the wrong thing in the eyes of society. Michael, however, does not go out into nature and he does not have a moral code at all. He is ruthless as a Don and does what he thinks is

Michael did not. When Huck Finn went out to nature he formed a moral code that, at the time, was completely contradictory to society. In reality, Huck picked the most moral decision possible for the situation. He completely disregarded societies influence on whether he should free Jim or not and he decided he needed to help him become free. When he decided that he was going to help Jim he thought he was doing a bad thing in everyone else’s eyes, even Gods, except in his own eyes. His own opinion on his decision was strong enough to make him go through with the decision to help free a black person. Michael, however, was not able to have time to go out to nature and come up with his moral code. He at first wanted nothing to do with his family but eventually joins the business. When in his family business he loses all morality and he says that all he is doing is for the good of his family. (Coppola) When he is in the church he completely negates all his vows he says by being the man who is responsible for all the deaths he has caused during the baptism