Evil. Morally reprehensible acts according to Webster's Dictionary. Evil. It is a characteristic that is endowed only to man here on Earth, for only man is intelligent enough to make decisions and know of their consequences. This, however, is where a question lays; why does man commit evil if he knows of its consequences? Many author's works are bound by similarities of the same wrestling with this question. According to Mark Twain's depiction of evil …showed first 75 words of 379 total…

…showed last 75 words of 379 total…realization about something, if not about the evil itself. An aspect or the whole of the society that the protagonist operates with (not nessicarily within like with Huck Finn) tends to be broken down for the reader in a manner that shows where the evils lie. This leads both Huck and Brown to seclude themselves from the society and its evils in the end; Huck heading for the territories and Brown becoming anti-social and inward.