Analysis Of Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe

Her father, who intends to free Tom, also dies before he can free Tom. Eva’s crazy mother takes over the plantation, and sells Tom. Tom ends up in the hands of the villainous Simon Legree. He treats his slaves like maggots below the dirt. Tom, with his standing Christian morals, does nothing to retaliate. Legree is Tom’s final master because Legree will end Tom’s life. Tom dies a poignant death with his old master’s son, George Shelby, at his side.

In one area of the chapter, Shelby mentions that, “Tom is an uncommon fellow; he is certainly worth that sum anywhere,—steady, honest, capable, manages my whole farm like a clock.” (Uncle Toms Cabin). Mr. Shelby also continues on to praise the fact that Tom is a devoted Christian, and that is why he can be trusted. What image that is typically portrayed in slavery is nothing but negative, and sometimes truly disturbing at times type of aspects. It is extremely odd that Mr. Shelby displays a sense of trust, and devotion to a slave. Many imagine that slave owners were terrible, violent, and cruel people. Yet oddly enough, Mr. Shelby doesn’t come off that way whatsoever.

"So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." - President Abraham Lincoln to Harriet Beecher Stowe about Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1862. Though Stowe wrote this book, not to start a war, but to recognize the horrors of slavery. This can be appropriately addressed by comparing the three main places Uncle Tom was sold to: The Shelby Farm, the St. Clare Homes, and the Legree Plantation. They vary from each other, especially concerning family dynamics, religion, the treatment of slaves, and what kind of people are there.

Simon Legree is the antagonist in this story. Simon Legree is Tom’s evil master on the Louisiana plantation. Simon is a vicious man who doesn't care about hurting his slaves. It seems that all Legree wants is to break Tom’s religious faith and to see him into doubt and sin. Simon does not like Tom because tom refuses to whip another slave. Simon is a cruel slave owner who ends up killing Tom by beating him to death. Before Tom dies, he forgives Legree, therefore defeating the purpose for Legree to hate Tom in the first place.

About him, we must know his wife Emily Shelby. She is a woman deeply religious, and try to use her kindness and morality to influence her slaves. When her husband will sell slaves to slave, she is shocked by the sad. As a woman, she had no legal status to prevent the occurrence of this matter, because all the property belongs to her husband.

From their perspectives, slaves are just property like money to them. They can do whatever they like to them without blame. However, if we have a close-up view of these three people, they are totally different from each other. The very first master of Tom, Arthur Shelby, is a relatively kind plantation owner.

When one travels in the country they learn the differences in the way people act or the way they are treated. Moving from Colonel Lloyd’s plantation to Baltimore, Frederick experienced the difference in how country slaves and city slaves were treated. 10. “A city slave is almost a freeman, compared with a slave on the plantation. He is much better fed and clothed, and enjoys privileges altogether unknown to the slave on the plantation. There is a vestige of decency, a sense of shame, that does much to curb and cheek those outbreaks of atrocious cruelty so commonly enacted upon the plantation.” (64-65). Slaveholders in the city took pride in treating their

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe which originally was published on March 20, 1852. Under the background that the country had been divided over the issue over slavery, the south states of the country are slaves states, and the north states of the country are slave free states. Different sides of the country have distinct views over slavery system in south. The north, specially abolitionist, views slavery system is villainous and immoral, it takes away the basic right of human which is freedom, and it againsts God which is Christian believes. The theme of the novel based on the abolitionist views. The purpose of the novel is that tell the world what is slave life like, especially for those northerners never been to the south.Their life will be strenuous or comfortable is depend on what kind of slave owner they meet. The book is appeal people to face and deal with the issue of slavery which lasted in the history for a long time.

Miss watson is christian and believes in being civilized, but owns a slave. Isn’t god only supposed to be superior over everyone? This shows us that racism can deeply affect society to the extent where religion can justify slavery. When Tom finally wakes up he happily starts to tell how they set Jim free, but when he was informed that he was in chains he instantly said that, “Old Miss Watson died two months ago, and she was ashamed she ever was going to sell him down the river, and said so; and she set him free in her will” (290). The idea and the fear of going to wrong place in the after life was one of the main reason why Miss watson wanted to set Jim free.

The above quotation is stamped on countless refrigerator magnets and embroidered on dishtowels across the world; and yet, how many of us ever stop to think about what it really means? After all, why is it important that a concept as ethereal and abstract as love should have significance in the kitchen, a place supposedly reserved for preparing that which is necessary only to maintaining the physical body? This question can perhaps be best answered by the “little woman” named Harriet Beecher Stowe, in her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin – written before we even had refrigerators, much less magnets bearing heartwarming little proverbs.

As many people say history was written by the victors, we need to remember there would be no victors without the struggle and turmoil of those that lost. This is what Harriet Beecher Stowe’s compelling novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin has taught us in regards to the war on slavery. In the midst of the 1800’s, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote her best-selling novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, to address the various issues regarding race during this century. Throughout her novel, readers learn the lives of slaves, slave masters, and their families, which leads to the understanding of a unique lifestyle among the characters. As her novel is important in today’s society, it made an even greater impact during the nineteenth century as it portrays the ideology of the Civil War and the abolitionists.

Through George Shelby’s actions, Stowe demonstrates what needs to happen. Regretting the actions of his father, George Shelby attempts to recover Tom, but instead finds him dead. Recreating the actions of Joseph of Arimathea, Shelby takes Tom’s body and shelters it. Shelby returns to his plantation, inspired to

In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Uncle Tom’s story line is that of a devout, obedient, Christian slave (Stowe, 2010). His first owner Mr. Shelby describes him as “an uncommon fellow...steady, honest, capable...” (Stowe, 2010, p. 2). Mr. Shelby sells him to a slave trader named Haley who takes him further south, but Tom’s disposition and conviction stays with him until his death. Mrs. Shelby wishes her husband hadn’t agreed to sell Tom and scolds him for it. In response Mr. Shelby says “...I don’t know why I am to be rated, as if I were a monster, for doing what everyone does every day” (Stowe, 2010, p. 29). Frederick Douglass (1852) heeds against siding with the majority, as Mr. Shelby did (Stowe, 2010), in cases concerning the oppressed in his fourth of July speech. He indirectly compares those against England’s oppression before it was socially and legally acceptable, to alienated or criminalized slavery abolitionists from his time when he said:

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a novel written in times of unrest where slavery was a controversial topic and women 's rights were still suffering. Uncle Tom’s Cabin showed the grim reality of slavery and showed the importance for women to gain a societal role beyond the domestic domain. The reading contains a number of major characters throughout the novel. The two most notable characters we will discuss is Mrs. Shelby and Marie St. Clare. Throughout this paper we will compare and contrast these two characters and give specific examples to illustrate the similarities and differences between these two unique individuals.

Mr. Shelby also continues on to praise the fact that Tom is a devoted Christian, and that is why he can be trusted. What image that is typically portrayed in slavery is nothing but negative, and sometimes truly disturbing at times type of aspects. It is extremely odd that Mr. Shelby displays a sense of trust, and devotion to a slave. Many imagine that slave owners were terrible, violent, and cruel people. Yet oddly enough, Mr. Shelby doesn’t come off that way whatsoever.