Uncle Tom27s Cabin

1、Uncle Toms Cabin,About the author,Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)was a teacher of Hartford Female Academy and a positive abolitionist.1850,she and her husband moved to Maine, where about anti-slavery discussion made her excited, so she used free time to write the Uncle Toms Cabin. This novel made

2、her fame. The impact was summed up in a commonly quoted statement attributed to Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, So youre the little woman who wrote the book that made this Great War!,名人评价,1. 构成那次巨大战争南北战争导火线的，想不到竟是这位身材矮小的、可爱的夫人。她写了一本书，酿成了伟大的胜利。 美国总统林肯 2. 斯陀夫人的汤姆叔叔的小屋是文

3、学史上最伟大的胜利。 美国著名诗人亨利郎费罗 3. 第一次听到了美国女作家斯托夫人的小说黑奴吁天录，美国南部黑奴们的悲惨命运和他们勇敢抗争的故事，心激动不已，紧握着眼泪湿透的手绢，在枕上翻来覆去，久久不能入寐。 著名作家冰心,Works,Uncle Toms Cabin, 1852-汤姆叔叔的小屋 A Key to Uncle Toms Cabin, 1853 汤姆叔叔的小屋题解 Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, 1856德雷德：阴暗大沼地的故事 The Ministers Wooing, 1859牧师的求婚 The Pearl of Orrs I

4、sland, 1862 奥尔岛上的明珠 Old Town Folks, 1869老城的人们,Major characters,Brief Introduction,This book is about the early nineteenth century, Kentuckys farmer Shelbys failed business, was forced to sell slaves to repay debts with Tom and little Harry. George Harris, his wife Eliza and his son Harry were fleein

5、g to Northern Canada, twists and turns, and finally safely met each other and lived a truly free peoples lives. Honestly , sincere Uncle Tom got a new owner StClare and his daughter Evas love, but unfortunately Eva was ill and died, and Mr. Clare was killed when he was going to give free to Uncle To

6、m. Uncle Tom died from abusing and beating by the devil incarnate of the farmer SimonLegree.,Plot,Literary Themes,Equality of all people Evil reality of slavery Christian love can overcome all (even something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings) The moral power of women,The Cabin sy

7、mbolizes “family”,The cabins symbolic meaning,Uncle Tom, Eliza and Mr. Shelbys families .,1.Uncle Toms family was totally destroyed because of his compliance to the evil slavery. He was honest and loyal. He had been sold three times and every time he was very compliant. In the end, he was dead miser

8、ably in the south. He no longer had the chance to come back to his cabin, to his family.,2.Eliza family was saved by herself because of her brave resistance to the evil slavery. At first, her son was arranged to sold to Haley together with Uncle Tom. But in contrast to Uncle Tom ,she bravely took he

9、r sun, jumping across Ohio River with the help of the floating ice, and ran away surprisingly.,Ohio River,3. Mr. Shelbys big family, includes his own families, his slaves. Mr. Shelby was good to his slaves. It made them a big family. It implies the potential that the white and the black could live together as a big family without clashes and distinctions between them in America.,But, this big family combined with the white and the black was finally destroyed by the evil slavery. Uncle Tom was sold to the south and finally died miserably, Eliza and her families ran away. American