Abstract: Uncle Tom’s Cabin written by Mrs Stowe depicted the miserable life of slaves and deeply revealed the brutality. By analyzing and comparing the two female slaves, Uncle Tom and George, this paper explores the writer’s purpose of revealing the brutality of slaves, calling for sympathy of readers’, criticizing slavery and appeal of the urgent need to abolish the slavery.

Key words: Uncle Tom's Cabin slavery criticism sympathy enlightenment

Contents

Abstract

摘要

Introduction-1

Chapter 1: The Historical Background-2

1.1The social background-2

1.2The religious background-3

1.3The literary background-4

Chapter 2: Uncle Tom: Sympathy and Criticism-4

2.1 Uncle Tom’s characteristics-4

2.1.1 Piety-5

2.1.1.1 Sacrifice-6

2.1.1.2 Love-6

2.1.2 Courage-7

2.1.2.1 The courage to accept to be sold-7

2.1.2.2 The courage to save Eva.-7

2.1.2.3 The courage to resistance-8

2.1.3 Resistance-8

2.1.3.1 The psychological resistance-8

2.1.3.2 The public resistance-9

2.2 Sympathy to the slaves-10

2.3 Criticize on the slavery-11

Chapter 3: George: Enlightenment-11

3.1 George’s characteristics-11

3.1.1 Intelligence-12

3.1.2 Bravery-13

3.1.2.1 The bravery to escape.-13

3.1.2.2 The bravery to negotiate with the catchers-13

3.1.2.3 The bravery to shot at catchers-14

3.1.3 Defiance-14

3.2 Call for the abolition to the slavery-15

Conclusion-15

Bibliography:-16

Acknowledgments-17