Slavery And Christianity In Uncle Tom's Cabin

The intrinsic ideas of Slavery and Christianity - two important factors that go throughout the history of Unite State - are actually incompatible with each other. Stowe has present the incompatibility of these ideas in her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by showing creating vivid figures and telling cliff-hang story. Vivid figures of both Christian and slave serve to reveal the contradiction of slavery and
Christianity.
To create the vivid figures, the most common method used by the author is the conversation between the figures. The novel is even start with conversation. “… said Mr. Shelby, thoughtfully; ‘the fact is sir, I’m a humane man, and I hate to take the boy from his mother sir.’ …said by Haley, ‘… … Fact is , I never could do things up …show more content…
Therefore, it is definitely a common sense for the Christian to know that selling slavery for money is immoral. Even it is immoral, the story still happened. This brought to the author’s second writing style. Cliff-hang story is another excellent way to show the conflict between slavery and
Christian. Tom, the moral guide of this book, has the miserable life because of the ideas of slavery.
Even in the beginning, his master is a benevolent person. The high pressure from the society forces everyone in this book to make changes. Even the people, holds the ideas of love and tolerance, are forced to give up their beliefs in the owns survival. For example, Mr. Shelby is forced to sell Eliza’s son and Tom. Uncle Tom died at the end of the novel. How miserable the story is can tell the reader how bad the silvery are. Stowe has underscored the important meaning of Christian. Christian’s love and tolerance ideas exist through the whole story. But these ideas never guide the development of the story because of the dark society. Nevertheless, this has highlighted the importance of these ideas to the reader. Make them never forget these ideas and never allowed these miserable story happened