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Mark Twain a Realist This shows a romantic notion that enforces the belief that society is a cruel place. It also shows
that to be a member of society one needs wealth is needed. Twain gives another example of the Romantic view of
society in the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck and Jim ( a slave) are on a raft and they are floating
along. Huck states � It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the
stars...� This shows the contentment found by escaping society and rejoining nature. Another romanic belief is that
�nature is a measure of reality.�Throughout Twain's writings he reflects on this idea. Twain wrote a novel on the
mississippi, entitled Life on the Mississippi. In this novel Twain express his boyhood passion for the river. He also tells
how the river created the man he is. This idea is seen as a romantic trait because �by studying nature one can become
close to ones own instincts and intuitions� Twain gives us an example of this in his novel Life on the Mississippi when
he has just witnessed a sunset and he says �I stood like one bewitched. I drank it in, in a speechless rapture. The
world was new to me, and I never seen anything like this at home.�Twain is showing his connection to nature is
renewed with the sunset; A true romantic view. Another example of this is in the same book when Twain is recalling
�Now I had often seen pilots gazing at the water and pretending to read it as if it were a book...� The romantic belief
that one can learn from nature is exemplified clearly as the pilots read the water. Twain
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