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A 6 page essay analyzing the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's work. It points out that Uncle Tom was never intended to be realistic, because he is a symbol for Christ and therefore for the holiness of the black man. Numerous correspondences between the life of Christ and the Uncle Tom narrative are provided. Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_Tomcabin.doc
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art; Uncle Toms Cabin is a work of propaganda. According to Steve Wasserman, "The most famous work exposing a social ill was undoubtedly Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin. .
. . Ten years [after its publication] when Lincoln met Stowe, [he remarked] "So youre the little woman who wrote the book that made this Great War" (Wasserman, 34). Uncle
Toms Cabin was never intended as a great work of literature; it was intended as a polemic in a fictional cloak -- a fable, if you will. The subtleties of
characterization and mood and imagery that we expect of a great novel are altogether absent here. So the question becomes less of analyzing the delicate construction of Uncle Toms character
than of analyzing Stowes intentions in creating him, and determining how well she fulfilled her intent. When we first meet Uncle Tom, he is learning to write. With the
skill of writing, a person can do marvelous things; the pen being mightier than the sword, he or she can literally change the world. But that possibility is entirely foreign
to Uncle Toms nature; his goal in achieving literacy is to read the Bible, and his goal in reading the Bible is to discover the will of God and thereby
become a better Christian. We learn that Tom manages the Shelby plantation, and he is the epitome of every good virtue Stowe could attach to him: hes strong, intelligent, competent,
responsible, and kind. Stowe describes him as being "a large, broad-chested, powerfully-made man, of a full glossy black," but lest the reader fear any possible threat emanating from this man,
Stowe also assures us his voice is "tender as a womans," and he is possessed of a "gentle, domestic heart." But Tom is nonetheless less of a person than
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