Essay Archive - Roger Rosenblatt's "The Bill of Rights": Inescapable Dilemma
Roger Rosenblatt's "The Bill of Rights": Inescapable Dilemma
All right, then, I'll go to hell.” Six simple words; yet they have
a very deep and complex meaning. The above quote was taken from Twain's
Huckleberry Finn, and it illustrates how modern man copes with what Twain
termed the “inescapable dilemma of Democracy.” In the novel, Huck is
faced with the dilemma of whether or not to return Jim, the runaway slave,
back to Jim's owner. He faced with the decision that has plagued man for
ages: choosing what is morally right, even though it is forbidden. This
is Twain's “inescapable....
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