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浙江大学学报(人文社会科学版) 1999
Huckleberry Finn and the Rites of Initiation
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Abstract:
With the double viewpoints of anthropology and Jung's psychological theory of "the collected unconscious", theis paper intends to give a new expanation of The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn. It is suggested that this novel belongs to Bildungsromans which is connected with the rites of initiation, The motifs, archetypes, structures and symbolic deaths and rebirths of the hero in the novelshow the tensions between culture and personality, society and individual, "self"and "others". The end of the novel expresses the writer's reflection and embarrassment vis-a-vis the above dilemma.