Incident In The Life Of A Slave Girl Analysis

Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl is a narrative autobiography by an enslaved black American woman who describes her experience during the slavery days and her escape from being enslave on the South to freedom in the North. Harriet Jacobs’s story is painful and she felt the need to make her story to exposed the behind the scene of slavery and tell what really goes on. She wanted to make it public, because she believed that it may help the antislavery movement. The slave narrative is closely related to the memoir. With that being said, in the Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, there are many ideas worth speaking about. There were many meaningful messages and themes in this story. Family and community was a very important theme in this …show more content…
Dr. Flint is definitely a real person and a character in his own right. Dr. Flint is just a representation of Jacob’s real life master and creator of making her life a nightmare. In Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Dr. Flint rises beyond the real life man, which he represents, and becomes a symbols of the cruelties and disaster of slavery. In his sexual obsession with Linda, Dr. Flint shows that slavery corrupts and abuses the children of slavery. His evils ways to her children shows that institution of slavery ruining innocent families just because they have the power to. Also, Dr. Flint would constantly lie to his wife dealing with female slaves and her coming to suspension of him having some type of a relationship with them, which created jealously and hatred in the white families’ homes. Making Dr. Flint into a symbol of everything that is wrong with slavery, especially with white slave owners. Linda turns her own struggle into a mythical allegory against evil. Each time that Linda resists Dr. Flint’s advances, she is also resisting slavery’s violent, immoral, and corrupting