Uncle Tom's Cabin.Introduction of the authorHarriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), American writer and philanthropist, best-known for the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851-52). The book was quickly translated into 37 languages and it sold in five years over half a million copies in the United States.Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut, and brought up with puritanical strictness. She had one sister and six brothers. Her father, Lyman Beecher, was a controversial Calvinist preacher. Stowe's mother died when she was four. When she was eleven years old, she entered the seminary at Hartford, Connecticut, kept by her elder sister. Four years later she was employed as assistant teacher.In 1834 Stowe began her literary career when she won a prize contest of the Western Monthly Magazine, and soon she was a regular contributor of stories and essays. Her first book, The Mayflower, appeared in 1843.In 1836 Stowe married Calvin E. Stowe, a professor at her father's theological seminary. The early years of their marriage were marked by poverty. Over the next 14 years Stowe had 7 children. In 1850 Calvin Stowe was offered a professorship at Bowdoin, and they moved to Brunswick, Maine. In Cincinnati Stowe had come in contact with fugitive slaves. She learned about life in the South from her own visits there and saw how cruel slavery was. These experiences led Stowe to compose her famous novel, which was first published in the anti-slavery newspaper The National Era and later in book form.Stowe started to publish her writings in The Atlantic Monthly and later in the Independent and in Christian Union. In 1853, 1856, and 1859 Stowe made journeys to Europe and became friends with George Eliot, Elisabeth Barrett Browning, and Lady Byron. However, British public opinion turned against her when she charged Lord Byron with incestuous relations with his half-sister in Lady Byron Vindicated (1870).Attacks on the veracity of her portrayal of the South led Stowe to publish The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853), in which she presented her source material. A second anti-slavery novel A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856), told the story of a dramatic attempt at slave rebellion. Stowe's later works did not gain the same popularity as Uncle Tom's Cabin. She published novels, studies of social life, essays, and a small volume of religious poems. Pearl of Orr's Island (1862), Old-Town Folks (1869) and her last novel Poganuc People (1878) were partly based on her husband's childhood reminiscences and are among the first examples of local color writing in New England.Stowe's mental faculties failed in 1888, two years after the death of her husband. She died on July 1, 1896 in Hartford, Connecticut.Introduction of the storyKentucky farmers Arthur Shelby for facing the predicament of the debt, and Uncle Tom and harry (housemaid Elisa son) to sell to the slave dealer in urgent need of money to raise him.Lisa took his son in Iraq on escape, and found the first step of escape than her husband, George? Harris, they decided to go to Canada. But be a named Tom? Locke slave hunters and his associates to trap the Iraq with her family, this leads to George was forced to rock shoot. Elisa persuaded George, will the slave hunters to a nearby Quaker settlements to get treatment.In addition, when Tom from Elizabeth, there to sell their master to get news, it does not want to escape, and to think that you should be master share sorrows, let host to sell their debt, so Tom follow the slaver black on the ship. In the ship, Tom saved the drowning carelessly little girl Eva, out of thank, Eva's father Clair bought Tom, so Tom to Clare's manor.Two years later, Eva on serious illness. In her before the death, Clair commitment will give Tom with free, but before that was stabbed to death. The Clair wife refused to fulfill its promises, will Tom to buy the evil farmers Simon? Le Gerry. Later, when Tom refused to obey the orders of Gerry to beat fellow slaves, from the cruel whip, and le Gerry is determined to crush by Tom the belief in god, but Tom refused to stop reading of the bible.At this time, George, Elizabeth, in after entering Canada freedom. And in Louisiana, when Uncle Tom the belief in god is removed, but for two dreams and is determined to keep his faith of Jesus Christ until death. He encouraged Cathy and Amy Lin fled, and later refused to tell Michael Gerry two people fled to where, therefore le Gerry ordered his supervisor kill Tom. In Tom before he died, George? Shelby appeared, he wants to buy back to Tom's freedom, but found that it was too late.The other side and the boat on the way to freedom, Cathy and Amy Lin met George? Harris's sister, and with her to go to Canada. Cathy found Elisa is she had long lost daughter. And now they finally meet, they arrived at the Liberia-former American slaves for life of African countries. There, they saw Cathy lost already a long time of son. George? Shelby back to the Kentucky farms, released the whole of his slaves, and told them to remember Tom's sacrifice of Christ and his real meaning of faith.The main character profileUncle Tom：And the title of the same characters Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), in the novel as published early Christian slaves of noble perseverance. Mrs. Stowe's original intention is shaping up to be a Tom a "noble hero" and deserves praise character. In the whole film, Tom although endure exploitation that brings the pain, but always persist in their beliefs, to the last even his enemies also has to respect him.Elisa：Eliza is a slave (Shelby lady's maid). In that her 5-year-old son, harry will be sold to the slave dealer after dark, she took harry escaped to the north. In Ohio, she and she husband George Harris again. The whole family moved into Canada, then to France, finally settled in Liberia.Eva：Eva the full name of Ivan JI Lin St. Clair. When Uncle Tom to be transported by ship on his way to New Orleans, Eva into the narrative. When a 5, and 6 year-old girl fall into water, Uncle Tom wills she saved up. Eva begged her father bought Tom, follow the Clair house came in New Orleans, Tom became the Clairmanor a coachman. But, Tom here most of the time is and angel Eva spent together. Eva often talk about some topics of love and forgiveness, she even convinced the stubborn slave girl top west, let she believes that she should also be loved. Eva had tried to touch her bad temper aunt Ophelia heart.Simon Taylor Gerry was born in the north of the cruel masters. His name became the greed and brutal pronoun. His goal is to defeat Tom and destroy his religious beliefs.Topsy is doesn't know where you are from "ragged" slave girl. When asked who made her, she doesn't think god, also don't think is her mother, "I think I'm long out, I do not believe in who made me". Later, she changed the fraternity of small Eva.The theme of Uncle Tom's CabinUncle Tom's Cabin book are dominated by the same theme: slavery's evil and immoral. When the secondary theme of Harriet Beecher Stowe to write her text - such as the mother's moral authority, and the possibility of rescue by the Christian - she will emphasize the link between these topics and the horrors of slavery. Almost every page of the novel, Stowe actively promote the theme of "slavery immoral", sometimes she will even change the tone of the story describes, to the destruction of slavery to the people "sermon" nature (For example, in ships to the southern states carrying Tom, a white woman said: "slavery is the most scary is trampling on the feelings and affection - for example, break up other people's flesh.") by the black the slave system dismantled and characterization of the families of others, the Stowe words to show the evils of slavery. This is the Uncle Tom’s Cabin Stowe that motherhood is a” model of morality and ethics in all of American life, “and believes that only women have the moral authority to rescue from the hands of the demon of slavery; in the expression of another theme: the moral strength of women and holiness. In the book, examples of such roles Eliza - A runaway nigger with her son (and eventually reunited with their family), or small Eva - she is regarded as an "ideal Christ Acts "; it is through this role, Stowe shows that this view: women are able to save the people around them, even if it is the most moral people. But later comments also mentioned Stowe described the role of women in general to the old-fashioned image of the housewife, but not the reality of women. In addition, Stowe's novel, "reiterated the importance of the women played, and the feminist movement in the subsequent decades the road paved to make a contribution.Stowe novel, Puritan religious disclose all an extension of the theme she explored Christianity and Christian theology and the nature of the slavery irreconcilable contradictions. When Eva's death, Tom begged her St. Clair's love "to see Jesus come back; Tom's death, George Shelby," a Christian is more than good "to praise him; this topic has been a definite highlight of Tom uncle.”part of, the Christian account of the themes in the novel Stowe and religious sentiment are issued frequently, this novel is also often used to" preach the form of books. "This book describes the many different forms, the different character of slaves, and also the variety of the slaveholders face. Efforts description, portray slaveholders instilled Christian spirit, submissive type slave Tom shaped reluctant to allow slaveholders decision the rebel slaves such as Eliza and her husband. Slave, Tom, andEliza and her husband the book are two completely different character, to tell readers: submissive and slave owners at the mercy of the slaves, can not escape the fate of death, he served as listening, only the courage to resist the fate of the courage to struggle and the fate of the slaves, before they get a new life.ConclusionThis book tells the reader two different personalities, Tom and George Harris and his wife: submissive, to obey the slave owners at the mercy of Tom can not escape the fate of death; the courage to resist courage to fight George couple is reborn. Therefore, the Uncle Tom's Cabin on social development has played a positive role, especially on Lincoln in the party to victory in the American abolitionist movement and the American Civil War, on behalf of justice, had a huge role. As a literary work, the famous American poet Henry Longfellow said it is literature in the history of the greatest victories.。
