斯托夫人汤姆叔叔的小屋中女性形象的塑造.docx

1、斯托夫人汤姆叔叔的小屋中女性形象的塑造斯托夫人汤姆叔叔的小屋中女性形象的塑造摘要斯托夫人笔下的汤姆叔叔的小屋是一部反奴隶制小说，这部小说关注奴隶制下，女性对社会的主要影响影响，描绘了女性自我牺牲的精神，她们通过传递基督教的爱去反对奴隶制、拯救社会。小说中斯托夫人笔下的女性角色，虽然依靠男性的经济，但在道德上都比男性更进步。女性是社会道德精神、家庭建设的主导支柱和力量。本论文分析了几位温柔的女性，以及她们在遭受奴隶制所带来的残害时的反应。同时也分析了小说中几位男性的形象，与女性形象形成鲜明的对比，体现了女性救赎是拯救社会必不可少的条件。关键词斯托夫人汤姆叔叔的小屋女性救赎奴隶制AbstractH

2、arriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin is an anti-slavery novel, but this novel is concerned about the impact of slavery to women and families and self sacrifice to fight against slavery sa well as saving the world. In the novel, the female roles mostly rely on men economically, but in the moral lev

3、el they make much progress. The female characters are the dominant power and the support of their family, as well as the spirit of social and moral construction. This thesis analyzes several gentle female characters and the reaction when women suffer from the slavery. At the same time, this thesis a

4、nalyzes several male characters, which are in sharp contrast to female characters. It expresses the idea that female redemption is an essential asset in the way of saving the society.Keywords Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Toms Cabin Female Redemptionslavery1 IntroductionUncle Toms Cabin not only descr

5、ibes the different performance and characters of the slaves, but also describes the different types of slave owners. This novel can be said as the Declaration against Slavery in the United States. Critics believed that this book played a major role on inspiring the peoples sentiment to object to the

6、 slavery. It is regarded as one of the causes of the Civil War, it also called on women to stand up to defend their rights.1.1 Harriet Beecher Stowe and Her WorkHarriet Beecher Stowe was one of the most influential American writers in the nineteenth century. She believed in religion and cared the so

7、cial and moral issues. She lived in the free state of Cincinnati, it was far away from the slave states, what one sees and hears slaves miserable life in slavery. She hated cruel torture and evil of slavery. She supported slaves heroic struggle. People and events she had experienced made her write t

8、he humbling novelUncle Toms Cabin.Uncle Toms Cabin is an anti-slavery novel, but it is quite different from the story, which is based on the sufferings of slaves. Harriet Beecher Stowe criticized the slavery in the book, at the same time she also vividly depicted womens tenderness, love, compassion

9、and loyaltyloyalty to family, and described the reaction when the female suffered the slavery. It expressed the best wishes that Stowe tried to arouse womens sympathy in the United States and called for them to object to slavery and saved the whole society. By means of analyzing the specific feature

10、s of women and comparing the differences between men and women, this thesis chose several characters, both women and men, to analyze the reflection of female redemption in this novel.During the prevalence of slavery in the United States, the tragedy of family separation and family breakdown occurred

11、 in the slave population. In 1850 the Fugitive Slave Act promulgated, it recognized that Negro slaves were the private property of slave owners under the form of law in the United States. The Fugitive Slave Act was cruel to slaves. It did not allow the white people to save runaway slaves. While wome

12、n, as a leading force in the moral spirit of their family and society, were born with love. This kind of event had a great shock at womens psychology. For white women, they were educated, they accepted Christian doctrine, and they were keenly aware of the cruelty of slavery. It was contrary to the m

13、oral personality, this consciousness also made white women in the dilemma. On one hand, they wanted to help the slaves. On the other hand, it meant that they would take a risk of violating national laws. Nevertheless, under the pen of Harriet Beecher Stowe, white women mostly conformed to the inner

14、call, so they became a powerful force to save the world and change the social.1.2 Literature ReviewUncle Toms Cabin is a classic literature of the world. From the early 19th century, foreign scholars began the study of Uncle Toms Cabin in a deep research, and wrote down many research results. The fo

15、llowings are from different analytical perspectives, which interpret and analyze some viewpoints.Reid Mandy used psychologists criticism theory methods to analyze racial characteristics of the work embodied and further explored its relationship between American history and culture, so he reached a c

16、onclusion that this work reflected the evidence of this shift in American racial values in the nineteenth century as well as their beliefs. They highly praised real women. Female was family-centered, and the destruction of the family caused by slavery made women be willing to sacrifice themselves to fight against slavery and eventually saved the world (Reid Mandy, 2008).Elizabeth Ammons and Springer used the method of character analysis. El