《哈克贝里·费恩历险记》所讲故事发生在南北战争以前。当时美国存在着两种不同的经济体系,北方是资本主义经济制度,工业产品突飞猛进,因此北方更注重自由劳工。而南方是种植园经济。许多白人贵族拥有种植园。他们种棉花、烟草、米以及甘蔗等。大量的黑人为白人辛苦劳动,为白人谋利,然而这些黑奴却遭到白人残酷的虐待和惩罚,甚至像畜生一样自由买卖。为此黑奴当时视北方为他们所向往的自由之地。经常为自由而拼死逃向北方这一“自由国土”。故事中的其中一主人公黑人吉姆听说女主人要卖掉他,就逃了出来,想到北部自由州去。路上遇到了逃避父亲毒打以及承受不了社会“文明教化”的压力而逃跑的白人孩子哈克。作者通过哈克和吉姆两人逃亡的故事,运用现实主义的描写与浪漫主义描写相结合的艺术写法,使人物心理刻画与诙谐的想象浑成一体,生动地刻画了哈克这一渴望自由、追求浪漫、冒险生活的形象。但是当时这样一种社会下真正的自由是不存在的。 The story of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn precedes the Civil War. There were two different economic systems in the United States at that time: the north was a capitalist economic system and industrial products were making great strides. Therefore, the north paid more attention to free labor. The south is a plantation economy. Many white nobility owns plantations. They grow cotton, tobacco, rice and sugar cane. A large number of blacks worked hard for whites and benefited whites. However, these black slaves were brutally abused and punished by whites and even freely traded like animals. For this reason, the Black Slaves regarded the North as the place for their freedom. Frequently desperately trying to escape to freedom in the north. When one of the protagonist blacks in the story, Jim, heard that the hostess had to sell him, he escaped and thought of going to the northern state of freedom. Encountered on the road to escape his father beaten and can not bear the social “civilized ” pressure to escape the white children Huck. Through the stories of Huck and Jim both fleeing their lives, the author uses the combination of realistic depictions and romantic depictions to portray the portrayal of characters and humorous imagination, vividly portrays Huck as the thirst for freedom, The pursuit of romantic, adventure life image. But there was no real freedom in such a society at the time.