Author: Gwyneth Evans
Gwyneth Evans taught English Literature and Liberal Studies at several Canadian universities. She now works as a harpist and helps with the editing of Humanist Perspectives.
The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn
The cry of the individual conscience, asserting itself in voice and action against the oppressive rule of custom and the law, echoes throughout the literature of the Western world. Sophocles’s Antigone defies the power of the state to give her brothers’ bodies a decent burial. When, in Ibsen’s A Doll House, Nora’s husband tells her …