Uncle Tom's Cabin Thesis

Through Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe communicates to readers that slavery is morally corrupt, by showing the wrong in slave owner's actions, the struggles and heartaches slaves were put through, and how faith and religion ultimately contradicted all that slavery encompassed.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a slavery novel written by Harriet Breecher Stowe. The book begins with Arthur Shelby, a “kind” slave owner and Tom’s master who resides in Kentucky. He is facing the loss of his farm because he has debts. Even though Mr. Shelby and his wife Emily have a close by connection with their slaves, Arthur decides to raise funds by selling two of his slaves which are Uncle Tom and Harry. Uncle Tom is a man with a wife and children, and he is about middle aged, and Harry, the son of Emily Shelby’s servant Eliza, are going to be sold to a slave trader. Emily is not okay with the idea of Harry being sold because she has promised

Through out the scarlet letter there were many ways why a man wouldn’t confess his sins. So by giving the examples and reasons why men won’t confess what they have done wrong would give those who are confused a better understanding on this particular topic. Also questions based on what Dimmesdale is talking about will be answered, for example many question “is a person able to hide his guilt without destroying himself or not? and what is the meaning of Dimmesdale statement when he said “to the untrue man the entire universe is false.”

    In “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” christianity and faith are an important themes. Stowe was a committed christian woman. Her book

Stowe focuses on the story of a slave name Uncle Tom, who was sold down the river and brutalized by the planter whose name remains a synonym for cruelty and oppression, Simon Legree. Uncle Tom was a slave for the Shelby’s’, who were very nice to him and really cared about their slaves. Unfortunately, due to their financial circumstances they had to sell Uncle Tom to another man named Haley, who later sold him to a very oppressive master named Simon Legree. Tom experienced the “best” of slavery at the Shelby plantation, and suffered the “worst” at the Legree plantation. Even though Tom suffered a lot he never gave up, as stated in the book when he tells his master “if you was sick, or in trouble, or dying, and I could save ye, I’d give ye my heart’s blood” (Stowe, 464).

Stowe believed that her writing gave her the ability to speak out publicly about matters for which the opinions of a woman was typically not sought or considered. She used writing as her voice and when Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published, she was found to have one of the loudest voices of them all. The character of Uncle Tom portrayed the life of a Christian slave that was sold to multiple slave owners and befriended other slaves throughout his struggles. The story ends when Uncle Tom is whipped to death by a cruel slave owner for not disclosing the location of his wife and another runaway slave. This story ripped open the issue of slavery and laid it bare for the world to see.

Tom first lives with a kind man named Arthur Shelby and his family. Tom has a family of his own with his wife, Chloe, and their three children. Mr. Shelby owns many slaves and treats them nicely, especially Tom because he works hard. Then, when Mr. Shelby needs to sell a few slaves because of financial reasons, he chooses Tom and a little boy named Harry, the son of another slave, Eliza. Eliza hears this news and decides to run away with Harry and suggests Tom does the same thing, but he doesn’t and decides to stay and be taken away from his family.

Harriet Beecher Stowe published a novel called “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in the year 1857. Selling over 300,000 copies in one year, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” had made an enormous impact on the people who read it. According to the textbook, “Much of its emotional impact came from its portrayal of slavery as a threat to the family and the Cult

Harriet Beecher Stowe tells stories of different slaveholders apathetic, abusive, and hypocritical actions towards various slaves in her beautifully written novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, during the 19th century in order to help convey the true evil behind slavery- no matter the circumstance. The author allows readers to view slavery from seemingly safe environments to hostile settings, and continually shows the bad in every situation. The reality of slavery is shown to anyone willing to read this novel, and Harriet Beecher Stowe does a good job of combining various stories that tie together in order to complete her goal.

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.

But for such an awarded and supposedly affecting book, the content of Uncle Tom’s Cabin does not differ from many of the other tragic anti-slavery novels. It follows a very basic plot: the protagonist, a slave, is moved from his own home, where he struggles for a while before ultimately dying. So, it is not the story itself that allows the novel to be such an effective literary work; rather, it is Stowe’s use of pathos through detailed characterization that draws readers in. For example, Stowe enlists pathos through the motherly figure of Eliza and the separation between families. In the novel, Eliza is depicted as a caregiver who has lost “two [of her children], one after another” (149).

The anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe was written at a time when slavery was a largely common practice among Americans. It not only helped lay the foundation for the Civil War but also contained many themes that publicized the evil of slavery to all people. The book contains themes such as the moral power of women, human right, and many more. The most important theme Stowe attempts to portray to readers is the incompatibility of slavery and Christianity. She makes it very clear that she does not believe slavery and Christianity can coexist and that slavery is against all Christian morals. She believes no Christian should allow the existence or practice of slavery.

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.

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