St. Clare In The Crucible

Tom's first owner, Mr. Shelby, was kind but careless. He was on the farm in Kentucky, Mr. Shelby was relatively humane to his slaves - but when his family finances were poorly led to his debt, he thinks that there’s no other choice for him other than selling his slaves to maintain his family business and life, but he did not fully reflect the fact that his deal with the Blackley implicated him throughout the slave trade system.

St. Clair, who wants to have the moral problems of the slaves, but without it, do anything, Legley, who, like Shelby, no time to waste in the moral thinking of having slaves, but with the Shelby is different, is a cruel tyrant waved his power without impunity.

St. Clare is a gentleman of Louisiana who has aristocratic descent, and he is very smart to admit that slavery is a system of ills, but his mother's death and his first love of failure make him emotional and moral are at a disadvantage. He will not take the initiative to hurt his …show more content…
Shelby and Legree. They are totally different to each other. Mr. Shelby shows humanity to his slaves and treated them as part of his family although it mainly caused by his wife’s persuasive opinions. However, his problem is that he did not try to do anything to change the situation at that time. All he does is keep dreaming that he is able to protect each and every one of his servants. It is obvious that he can not, he can not prevent treating with human trader so that he has no choice but sell his most important servant Tom which leads to the next two owners. They appear in the sequence of keep increasing the evilness and heartless. The most significant one comparing with Mr. Shelby is definitely Legree. He has the power to torque and kill his slaves; refuse to let them practice their religion and keep them half-starved. His exist shows us the cruelty of the world and the author would like to tell us that the bad thing is that people like Legree really exists among