Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Book Analysis)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Book Analysis)
Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, including racism, martyrdom and freedom. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 44-page reading guide is structured as follows:
- Biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Presentation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Summary of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Character study
- Uncle Tom
- Eva
- Augustine St Clare
- Legree
- Analysis of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- The evils of slavery
- Humanity and equality
- Freedom and inferiority
About Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin tells the story of the title character, an African-American slave who finds himself working for several different masters. Despite the fact that he is viewed as little more than property and is often treated cruelly, he never loses his faith or capacity for forgiveness, making him an example of Christian tolerance, as well as a rebuttal of the idea that black Americans were somehow less human than their white counterparts.
The novel has provoked controversy since it was first published in 1852: while it was generally warmly received in the North of the USA, whose inhabitants tended to be more favorable to the abolition of slavery, many in the South were outraged at its suggestion that the institution was inhuman and its attempts to elicit sympathy for slaves. Later critics have also drawn attention to the racial stereotypes promoted throughout the novel.
About Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Connecticut in 1811 to a Presbyterian minister father and a devoutly religious mother who died when she was five years old. Unusually for the time she was growing up, she received an education thanks to her older sister Catharine, who ran the Hartford Female Seminary, and went on to teach there. She was a staunch opponent of slavery, and wrote her bestselling novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin with the aim of educating her compatriots about the evils of the institution and ultimately bringing about its abolition.
Product details
ISBN | 9782808016827 |
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Publisher | Plurilingua Publishing |
Collection | Brightsummaries.com |
Format | |
Pages | 44 |
File size | 2.2 MB |