《汤姆叔叔的小屋》中的母爱力量
Contents
摘 要 i
Abstract ii
I. Introduction 1
II. The Influence of the Feminism on Stowe 1
2.1 Feminism under the Social Background 2
2.2 Stowe’s Experience of Motherhood 3
III. The Power of Maternal Love 4
3.1 Men’s Failure to Redeem the World 4
3.2 Women’s Moral Superiority over Men 5
IV. Redemption through Women 8
4.1 Courage and Resolution of Women in the Novel 8
4.2 The Maternal Paradise 10
V. Conclusion 11
Bibliography 13
Acknowledgements 14
Abstract
Written in 1851 in response to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, Uncle Tom’s Cabin is considered as the most influential anti-slavery novel in that period. Although Uncle Tom’s Cabin is an anti-slavery novel, it is very different from ordinary slave stories that focus on the life and struggle of black slaves. Mrs. Stowe not noly criticizes slavery but also portrays mothers as tender, loving, sympathetic and devoted in her book. By emphasizing the courage and moral power of women, by idealizing motherly love, the author is seeking the sympathy of American women to take actions against the slave system. Thus, this essay explores the ways that Stowe dramatizes women’s roles and power in the fight against the chattle slave system to redeem the fallen world in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, aiming at revealing Stowe’s idealized images of the family and mothers.
Key words: Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Stowe; Maternal love; redemptionThe Power of Maternal Love in Uncle Tom’s Cabin
I. Introduction
Written in 1851 in response to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, Uncle Tom’s Cabin is considered as the most influential anti-slavery novel in that period. It focud on the life and struggle of poor black slaves, made a violent attack upon the evils of slavery, accused the North of its implication in this national curse and strongly appealed to the sympathy of the reading public to urge them that slavery must be stopped. It is true that the stories of Uncle Tom, Eliza and George Harris are the major plots of the novel, but they are not sufficient to account for the novel’s special strength, without which Uncle Tom’s Cabin would have gone unnoticed like other anti-slavery stories. What’s more, it frames the mundane struggle for Christian salvation. In contrast to the slave narratives, which focuses on the efforts of black people to achieve freedom, Stowe’s novel explores the moral dilemma of white Americans who must decide how to act in the face of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law. Therefore, the story introduces us another group of characters—women, particularly white women. Stowe, a woman writer, paid close attention to the severe effort of the slave system on women. So this paper aims to explore the power of maternal love.
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