Angelic Women In Uncle Tom's Cabin

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In < Uncle Tom’s Cabin >, women often played as the angelic mothers or counselors, and they become the guiding moral lights here. For instance, when the Eliza heard about her master wanted to sell out her children, she write a letter before leaving her ‘ home ‘. From this little details we can discover that she could not forget the loving kindness of Mr. Shelby, who taught her the bible and the meaningless of the life. Another example is about the Mrs. Shelby. For letting the Eliza escaped with her children, she try to detain Haley by every female artifice. She therefore graciously smiled, assented, chatted familiarly and did all she could to make time pass imperceptibly. By these hard work, she finally succeeds to help Eliza escape from the

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