Of Plymouth Plantation Rhetorical Analysis

On a superficial level, Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is a fictitious, narrative about slavery. Yet, the truth is that the novel is filled with propaganda. A narrator, Stowe, breaks the third wall to directly address the issues of slavery with the reader. The novel ends with revelatory remarks that there can be no possible justification for owning slaves, and beyond the condemnation, action needs to be taken to end the horrible enterprise. Beyond direct statement through the narrator and characters, the characters themselves hold a type of persuasions in their actions and thoughts. This novel is more than just a casual read. There can be no mistake, the novel is a form of propaganda with the ultimate goal of influencing its readers

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.

Another place in the text where Stowe’s theme becomes clearer to readers in in chapter twenty when St. Clare exclaims, “That’s you Christians, all over!—you’ll get up a society and get some poor missionary to spend all his days among just such heathen. But let me see one of you that would take one into your house with you, and take the labor of their conversation on yourselves! No; when it comes to that, they are dirty and disagreeable, and it’s too much care, and so on (866).” St. Clare recognizes the evil of slavery himself but is afraid free his slaves in order to become a “Christian.” He is more than willing to point out all the problems

But I do not agree with this. I feel that Stowe was just trying to spread awareness and let people know the extreme experiences that slaves were actually put through. I feel that this is very different then promoting racial stereotypes. In a way I feel like this is challenging them more because it is more real and honest. This novel says it how it was there was no sugar coating whatsoever. This to me was a great approach because it was better at spreading awareness of what all those people actually went through.

Stowe spoke out for the slaves in several of her writings. She believed the sin of slavery to be the denial of humanity to man. As such, the argument in one of her novels began: "if the Negro is a man, what possible excuse can there be for denying him liberty and equality?" (Adams 67). Also, in Biographical Sketch of The

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Olaudah Equiano’s Narrative of his Life both endeavor to stir antislavery sentiment in predominantly white, proslavery readers. Each author uses a variety of literary tactics to persuade audiences that slavery is inhumane. Equiano uses vivid imagery and inserts personal experience to appeal to audiences, believing that a first-hand account of the varying traumas slaves encounter would affect change. Stowe relies on emotional connection between the readers and characters in her novel. By forcing her audience to have empathy for characters, thus forcing readers to confront the harsh realities of slavery, Stowe has the more effective approach to encouraging abolitionist sentiment in white readers.

The influence of Stowe’s family with the different forms of the abolitionist movements and her own contact of fugitives from slavery. She knew, heard of and read about; are the two main sources of her hatred for the institution of slavery (89). She also had placed herself in the mindset of a mother who have lost her child from cholera or separation, the emotional bond is the same for whites and black (88). She had been exposed just from what was going on around her and what people around her was one of the people who had an influence on Stowe was her Father Lyman Beecher.

Harriet Beacher Stowe is known for her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. In Uncle Tom’s Cabin the reader follows several different stories of female slaves who are either threatened with separation from their child or who are separated. Through this variety of perspectives, Stowe argues the emotional damages of this practice. She uses pathos to convince the reader of her argument through specific descriptions of the women who loose their children. One

The whole novel is talking about how they fight and the difference between slave who fight or not fight for themselves. Therefore, Stowe use many different things to show us about different roles and what their life like. The purpose of this novel is just want to fight with slave law and hope citizen who in the American can support them to abolish the Slave law. Then, slaves can get their freedom and government can improve their constitution convention. Also, this novel cause the Civil War start and slaves began to

She was unable to touch the slaves she was supposed to liberate. The third and most important was St. Clare’s conformity. If every reader of the book metaphorically had changed from a St. Clare to a George Shelby, slavery would no longer have been an issue in the United States. In other words, Stowe supported Dr. Abraham’s quote that people make excuses to hide their real thoughts. However, she clearly shows that although it is commonplace, it is not the right thing to

The main goal of Stowe was to shine light on the horrors of slavery that people went through. The novel succeeded in in raising the world's conscious views on slavery, but with any negative outlook, it goes to show how mental slavery is still upon the globe (Jackson

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s intent is to provide insight about the slavery system in the South to people in the North and persuade them to act upon their feelings regarding the subject. Stowe illustrates this by giving examples of cruelty, providing instances that elucidate the negative effects that the system entitles, and many subtle uses of moral suasion.

As previously mentioned, Stowe composed Uncle Tom’s Cabin to express the various views of slavery, and how it impacted the lives of those affected by this lifestyle. Growing up in this century, Stowe found the institution of slavery to be corrupt, with “the country requiring her complicity in a system she thought was unjust and immoral” (Uncle Tom’s Cabin). As Stowe did not believe in the Fugitive Slave Law—which required everyone to aid in the capture of fugitive slaves—she chose to hide runaway slaves, and her family promoted her drive to aid those in need. Stowe accomplished this feat through housing, feeding, and smuggling slaves to legal freedom in Canada, because it was the Christian thing to do.

To demonstrate her political opinion, Stowe makes her arguments in an emotional way. Stowe clari-fies herself as a partisan against the evil of slavery from all her implication and tone of description. The evil of slavery-treated human beings as property

With Stowe’s publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin many people were shaken either because they felt she portrayed slavery to its fullest extent or exaggerated the immorality of the institution. As can be assumed from the diversity of the North and South’s opinion on the matter there was a big difference between how they reacted to the publishing of the novel. The one group present essentially in the North but scarcely also in the South who praised the existence of the novel the most were the anti-slavery abolitionists. They were overjoyed knowing that someone had finally stood up on the matter and had proclaimed its reality. Not only did they like that Stowe was condemning slavery, but they were further ecstatic about the fact that Stowe depicted all aspects of slavery explicitly. She did