The title of my book is Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin's story centers around the events in the lives of various slaves and their owners. The protagonist, a slave named Tom, is sold off to a slave trader and then bought into a wealthy family. Among the female members of the family are Marie and Ophelia St. Clare.
Marie St. Clare is one of the story's flat characters, possessing attributes of laziness, selfishness, and self-mindedness. She is slow to put her hand to any work and blames her inefficiency on her illness, causing everyone around her to loathe her-including her own husband. She finds fault of everything and gives constant complaints on the unfairness of her wealthy lifestyle and troublesome slaves. One illustration of her laziness lies in chapter 16. In this scene, Marie and various other characters criticize the laziness of slaves, saying too …show more content…
Clare shares the fact of being a flat character with Marie St. Clare-but almost nothing more. Ophelia is the story's notable hard-working, organized screw of the bunch. She puts her hands to work that others around her declare no southern belle with slaves should be complied to. This would be, of course, impossible of Ophelia to do as she is not a southern, but a northerner whose prowess has been requested to fill in at the estate where Marie's has left off , i.e. due to her illness. Ophelia's industrious attitude pops up in chapter 18, where she is noted to have her mind set on changing the way of riff-raff organization around the house. On page 175, it states Ophelia's various tasks in rearranging among which were
The title of my book is Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin's story centers around the events in the lives of various slaves and their owners. The protagonist, a slave named Tom, is sold off to a slave trader and then bought into a wealthy family. Among the female members of the family are Marie and Ophelia St.
Marie St. Clare is one of the story's flat characters, possessing attributes of laziness, selfishness, and self-mindedness. She is slow to put her hand to any work and blames her inefficiency on her illness, causing everyone around her to loathe her-including her own husband. She finds fault of everything and gives constant complaints on the unfairness of her wealthy lifestyle and troublesome slaves. One illustration of her laziness lies in chapter 16. In this scene, Marie and various other characters criticize the laziness of slaves, saying too …show more content…
Clare shares the fact of being a flat character with Marie St. Clare-but almost nothing more. Ophelia is the story's notable hard-working, organized screw of the bunch. She puts her hands to work that others around her declare no southern belle with slaves should be complied to. This would be, of course, impossible of Ophelia to do as she is not a southern, but a northerner whose prowess has been requested to fill in at the estate where Marie's has left off , i.e. due to her illness. Ophelia's industrious attitude pops up in chapter 18, where she is noted to have her mind set on changing the way of riff-raff organization around the house. On page 175, it states Ophelia's various tasks in rearranging among which were
The title of my book is Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin's story centers around the events in the lives of various slaves and their owners. The protagonist, a slave named Tom, is sold off to a slave trader and then bought into a wealthy family. Among the female members of the family are Marie and Ophelia St.