Writing for the Ages

Throughout the journey of Huck and Jim, I feel like Twain incorporates multiple writing styles including many styles that are seen in all kinds of literature. We can see hints of transcendentalism as Jim and Huck rebel and journey away from society, we see romanticism with the King and the Duke, and we also see other various styles. One example is the style of soliloquy that immediately made me think of Iago from the play "Othello", the scenes that I am referring to are when Huck is planning and scheming on how to help the orphan girls. He plans out his robbery of the money and then plans out how to show the guilt of the King and Duke through his mischievous plan an cunning wit to puppet others to his plan. This plan of course has to absolutely fall apart just like those of Iago and Cassius of Tragedian days. 

Another style that I think Twain emphasized was the coming of age plot with young Huck receiving guidance from Jim on the way and having his special items of the canoe and the boat, and really going out into the world and experiencing it for way it really is. Now Twain encompasses Huck's journey into the deep South to create a book that fit the time and made the points he wanted to about racism and prejudice, but it still has the plot of coming of age.