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Uncle Tom's Cabin
George L. Aiken adapted Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin for Broadway, and in doing so helped to create the standalone play; a single story without additional opening or closing...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
George and Eliza were married by a minister and have a son together, who is named Harry. George and Eliza are both slaves, and they have different masters. Unfortunately, George's master, Mr....
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
In Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Augustine St. Clare is Tom's third owner, a man who believes that slavery is morally and philosophically wrong but nevertheless relies on slavery to...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
George is in an especially despondent mood after the savage whipping he's just taken from his master. He's an exceptionally hard and diligent worker, but that cuts no ice with his master, a cruel,...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Chapter 1 introduces the reader to the plot details that propel the story forward. That is a bit rare, since many novels usually only introduce the characters in the first few chapters, and then...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
The most elemental answer here is that Stowe was not handcuffed by the demands of nonfiction writing. She was able to construct "a great story." She recognized that the historical novel can be...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Consistent with Augustine's reasoning as a humanist, he argues that slavery imposes a dehumanizing effect on the slaveholder. He makes the argument that one of the worst impacts of slavery is that...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tom, also called Uncle Tom, is the protagonist of Uncle Tom's Cabin. He is a devout Christian man who believes in God's love regardless of earthly circumstances of sorrows or horrors. Even thou...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Simon Legree is the owner of a Louisiana plantation, Tom's last. Legree is greedy. He is evil and cruel. On his plantation he beats his slaves daily. They are not fed well. They are overworked. He...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
With most thesis statements, the intended purpose is to help your reader determine what you will be saying during the rest of your paper. For many papers, teachers advise that you have about three...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe condemns slavery in every way in this novel, which was written as a polemic, with the purpose of persuading white readers that even under the best circumstances, slavery was a...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tom's first master is Arthur Shelby. He is comparatively benevolent in his treatment of his slaves, is known as a "kind master", and is reluctant to sell Tom when he finds himself in...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tom can be seen as Christ- like in several ways. Like Christ, Tom never takes the form of the world around him. His environment, especially under Simon Legree, is one of brutality and cruelty, a...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
In some ways, Uncle Tom's Cabin was a reflection of a certain point of view at a certain time. Its author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, was an abolitionist, and she, like many other anti-slavery...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Stowe did an eloquent and masterful job of pointing out how slavery destroyed families, foremost. The idea that even slave families should be kept together is a predominating factor in this...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
St. Clare realizes that slavery is wrong, but he feels trapped by the institution. He is not a religious man, though he seems to want to experience faith, and similarly he fails to act on the...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
This is not an easy question to answer, because interpretations on Uncle Tom's Cabin are mixed. For example, is uncle Tom to be emulated as a man of Christian character, or rejected as a weak...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
The answer to this question can be found early in chapter one of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Mr. Arthur Shelby owns a farm in Kentucky and, though he does own slaves, he treats them...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
"Mammy" in Stowe's work is actually Aunt Chloe, who is Tom's wife. She is his wife as well as the mother of his children. Like Tom, she is a slave, a part of a culture that renders her without...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
This is open to debate, as you're talking about the background motivations of an author in the 1850s. The novel itself was written in response to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, requiring...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
I would venture to say that this book helped the Civil War along because it told a cruel story about runaway slaves and the harsh labor conditions of the field workers. The house slaves, while...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
All three of Tom's owners are selfish in that they put their own needs ahead of their slaves' needs, but aside from that they are strikingly different. Tom's first owner, Mr. Shelby is a kind...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852. The publication of the book, and the response to it, are credited with helping to bring about the Civil War. In fact,...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
There is so much that can be stated in connection to this question. Let me give you a few points. First, it is important to note that this book was published right after the Fugitive Slave act of...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
The overarching lesson Stowe wanted to convey in her novel is that even under the best of conditions, slavery was an evil institution. People in her time often justified slavery with the argument...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Historians typically say that Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin had a tremendous impact on the North. Abraham Lincoln supposedly greeted her by saying, “So you're the little...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
President Abraham Lincoln, upon meeting the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1862, is alleged to have said to Harriet Beecher Stowe, “So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
As a reader of American literature, I am certainly glad that I’ve read Uncle Tom’s Cabin. It is an important piece of writing that reflected something important about our country. However, as a...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
George L. Aiken's play of Uncle Tom's Cabin represented a somewhat changed version of the story, as compared to Harriet Beecher Stowe's original novel. However, when Stowe viewed the play, she...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Given the fact that it has been sold world-wide for over a century, it is almost impossible to know the exact number of copies that have been sold. No book, except the Bible, has ever been as...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Eliza Harris is a slave woman owned by the Shelby family. She is Mrs. Shelby’s slave. Her husband, George Harris, is a slave on another plantation. It was very common for slave families to be...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Both reacted powerfully, but they reacted quite differently. The South criticized the book, especially supporters of slavery. Many people wrote letters, and some even wrote entire books answering...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was important because it helped to bring on the Civil War. President Lincoln is supposed to have said (though this is probably apocryphal) to Harriet Beecher Stowe “So you're...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
In Chapter XVII of Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," Eliza becomes greatly concerned when she learns from Phineas that he has overheard a group of men talking about capturing George and...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Stowe primarily contrasts slave owners, and this supports her anti-slavery theme. While in her time many people supported slavery by arguing that the majority of slaveowners were good to their...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom and Eva are the two main Christ-like figures in the novel. Through them, Stowe shows that true Christians sacrifice themselves for the good of others. Slavery, in contrast, sacrifices the...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Simon Legree is the embodiment of pure evil. He is a slaveowner who is not bothered with the moral implications and ethical consequences of his actions. He is one who enjoys tormenting his slaves...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Intriguing question! In the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stowe utilizes several different techniques to illustrate the incompatibility of slavery with the Christian ethics of...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tough one! There are lots of parts of course that were deliberately meant to shock Stowe's mainly Christian audience, but I guess for me it would be these lines: “I looks like gwine to...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Within the framwork of the novel itself, the escape works quite simply by giving her freedom. It shows her personal desperation turned into an act of heroism and courage upon hearing the news that...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
There are two possible approaches to psychoanalytic criticism of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. One uses the book as a way to analyse the psychology of the author and the other...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
In chapter twenty-one, there are many interesting concepts and events! However, one of the most interesting concepts is the dilemma that occurs after Tom sends a letter to Chloe. As a result, Mr....
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
The popularity of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin helped galvanize the slavery abolition movement just prior to the Civil War. The novel focused on the impact of slavery on individuals,...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
"So you're the little lady who started this great big war," Abraham Lincoln is reported to have said upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, referring to her 1852 novel, and the role it had played in...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin had a very profound effect on American history, as it convinced many moderate Americans that slavery was wrong by personalizing slavery and showing its effects on people. While...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
I have changed your question because it did not make sense to ask how the book itself suffered from slavery. Therefore I assume that you are asking how the character himself suffered. Uncle Tom...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Chapters one through nine carry us through the first part of the novel, which is focused on the Shelby estate in Kentucky. There we are introduced to Uncle Tom, a husband and father of young...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
There is a geographical shift that takes place in chapter 37 and the setting is now the Midwest. The reader has followed the fugitive slave hunter Tom Loker as he has been trying to apprehend Eliza...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
There are a number of very important religious points that Stowe uses to show the evils of slavery. First, it is important to note that the context of the novel is rooted in Christianity. Also the...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852, and became an instant classic, helping to drive the abolitionist movement and allowing insight into slavery that was not...