To many people freedom is the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved but The book, Uncle Toms Cabin written by Harriet Beecher Stowe seems to have her own version of the definition of freedom. This novel, just like other books she has written creates the theory that freedom is not just about liberation further explaining that the fact that no one is claimed does not make the individual free. As it was written under the fugitive slave act of 1850, that helping or supporting a slave is a punishable crime in certain states, this novel may as well be considered as the countermand. The purpose of writing this paper is to critically analyze Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Toms Cabin and its effect on freedom and slavery. Uncle toms
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But her father refused to believe she was sick. Her condition got worse and she eventually came to terms with her sickness, knowing she may not live long enough. Eva had touched the lives of everyone around and everyone mourned her when she died. She was a good woman. Due to Toms influence on the St. Clare family, Eva St. Clare’s father promised to set Tom free, signs Ophelia as Topsy’s legal guardian and makes moves to shield his slaves from being sold in case of his demise. Soon, Eva St. Clare’s father gets killed and his wife started to sell most of the slaves including …show more content…
Harriet Beecher Stow wrote Uncle Toms Cabin to further shed light on the wickedness and effect of slavery in the mid-nineteenth century. This novel portrays the pain, anguish of the slaves and how they were constantly maltreated by their inhumane owners, more so the extent to which keeping people in bondage will not only hurt the slaves, but everyone involved in it. Uncle Toms Cabin can be criticized for some parts of the story like the way she represented the black slaves in the book, she made them out to be people who never tried to resist the torments but rather as weak individuals that bowed to every order given by their owners. Apparently, the slaves will be in more trouble if they resisted but she could as well have added in the book that maybe once or twice they tried to stand up for themselves. Stowe generalized them as people who did not have a voice. Stowe also imposed religion in her novel, making it look like the only thing that can make a man kind or compassionate was by being a believer. It is quite inaccurate that she would craft the judgments of a man based on his religion, for example, her putting in the story that St. Clare’s father only wanted to let Tom go after he had become a Christian. So apparently St. Clare would never have even thought of letting Tom go if Tom never introduced Christianity to him. She made religion look like a state of mind for kindness and that fact is not agreeable
But her father refused to believe she was sick. Her condition got worse and she eventually came to terms with her sickness, knowing she may not live long enough. Eva had touched the lives of everyone around and everyone mourned her when she died. She was a good woman. Due to Toms influence on the St. Clare family, Eva St. Clare’s father promised to set Tom free, signs Ophelia as Topsy’s legal guardian and makes moves to shield his slaves from being sold in case of his demise. Soon, Eva St. Clare’s father gets killed and his wife started to sell most of the slaves including …show more content…
Harriet Beecher Stow wrote Uncle Toms Cabin to further shed light on the wickedness and effect of slavery in the mid-nineteenth century. This novel portrays the pain, anguish of the slaves and how they were constantly maltreated by their inhumane owners, more so the extent to which keeping people in bondage will not only hurt the slaves, but everyone involved in it. Uncle Toms Cabin can be criticized for some parts of the story like the way she represented the black slaves in the book, she made them out to be people who never tried to resist the torments but rather as weak individuals that bowed to every order given by their owners. Apparently, the slaves will be in more trouble if they resisted but she could as well have added in the book that maybe once or twice they tried to stand up for themselves. Stowe generalized them as people who did not have a voice. Stowe also imposed religion in her novel, making it look like the only thing that can make a man kind or compassionate was by being a believer. It is quite inaccurate that she would craft the judgments of a man based on his religion, for example, her putting in the story that St. Clare’s father only wanted to let Tom go after he had become a Christian. So apparently St. Clare would never have even thought of letting Tom go if Tom never introduced Christianity to him. She made religion look like a state of mind for kindness and that fact is not agreeable