HarrietBeecherStowe比彻·斯托夫人.ppt

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
商五 李跃 2008141146
哈里特·比彻·斯托
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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as born on Jun 14th, 1811. With her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe helped to change the world by changing the way people looked at slavery. The book, published in 1852, was the first to break down the stereotypes and portray slaves as individuals. It is said that President Lincoln met Stowe during the Civil War and said to her, "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that made this big war."
Uncle Tom's Cabin
'Uncle Tom's Cabin', her first novel, was published in 1852 and provoked an intense and undeniable reaction -- at home and abroad -- against American slavery. She wrote many more novels, none of them as famous or important as her first.
The main character--Uncle Tom
Uncle Tom is good-willed, loyal, and submissive, and has been recognized as a tragic figure. As a slave, he worked miserably for his owners, and helped his fellows self-sacrificially throughout his life. He is a real hero. His obedience selflessness and universal love towards others establish a noble image in people’s hearts. However, such a kind-hearted man should
have been beaten to death!
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Motifs
Motifs are recurring structures, contrasts, or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes.
Figures
The novel presents two instances of a sacrificial death linked to Christ’s.
Eva and Tom, the two most morally perfect characters in the novel, both die in atmospheres of charged religious belief, and both die, in a sense, to achieve salvation for others. Both Tom and Eva are explicitly compared to Christ.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Motifs
2. The Supernatural and Divine Intervention
Several supernatural instances of divine intervention in the novel suggest that a higher order exists to oppose slavery.
When Eliza leaps over the Ohio River, jumping rapidly between blocks of ice without fear or pain, the t