英美文学之Uncle Tom’s Cabin PPT展示

Main Plots of The Novel
Eliza escaped with her son, Tom sold “down the river” (伊莉莎携 子逃亡，汤姆被卖到“河的下游去”)
Eliza‘s family hunted, Tom’s life with St. Clare(追 捕伊莉莎家庭，汤姆与圣克莱尔生活)

Uncle Tom's Cabin also created great interest in the United Kingdom. The first London edition appeared in May 1852 and sold 200,000 copies By 1857, the novel hadቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱbeen translated into 20 languages, Later, it was translated into almost every major language.
Thank you!
So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
In1869: campaigned for the expansion of married women's rights. In the 1870s Stowe fled to Florida , After her return to Connecticut, Mrs. Stowe was among the founders of the Hartford Art School In 1886: Calvin Stowe's died, and her own health started to decline rapidly. Died on July 1, 1896, in Hartford, Connecticut. at age 85

Uncle Tom's Cabin outraged people in the American South. The novel was also roundly criticized by slavery supporters. However, Abraham Lincoln commented, "So this is the little lady who started this great war."
Analysis of the Main Characters
Mrs.Stowe portrays several vivid characters with distinctive temperament. Among them, there are the white and the black, the nobles and the slaves, the kind and the cruel. In her description of all these characters, we can learn that Mrs.Stowe advocates that people are equal and is against racial discrimination. She also held the belief that people are born to to be equal and should have right to enjoy freedom. So the main of the book are all Christians to different extent.
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Lyman Beecher
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in June 1851, when she was 40, the first installment of her Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in serial form in the newspaper National Era
General evaluation of Mrs. Stowe
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American abolitionist and author. was influential both for her writings and her public stands on social issues of the day.
Tom sold to Simon Legree(汤姆被卖给西蒙.勒格里)
Final section (汤姆死去，Cassy一家逃忙成功并与亲人团圆，乔治.谢尔比解放 了家中的奴隶。)
Eliza escaped with her son, Tom sold "down the river"
Kentucky farmer Arthur Shelby Emily Shelby George Shelby Slaves Uncle Tom Harry(Eliza's son)
Tom was sold to Simon Legree
Tom was beaten viciously . Tom met with Emmeline , Cassy
Uncle Tom encouraged Cassy and Emmeline to escape. When Tom refused to tell Legree where Cassy and Emmeline had gone, Legree ordered his overseers to kill Tom. As Tom was dying, he forgave them. Humbled by the character of Tom, they become Christians.
Eliza met with her husband - George Harris chased by a slave-hunter - Tom Loker
Eva: friendliness, love, equality, like an angel. Eva grew very ill. Before she died she experienced a vision of heaven, which she shares with the people around her. Therefore, St. Clare decided to pleded to free Tom.

Literary Works
Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852《汤姆叔叔的小屋》 A Key to Uncle Tom's 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 Minister's Wooing, 1859《牧师的求婚》 The Pearl of Orr's Island, 1862《奥尔岛上的明珠》 Old Town Folks, 1869《老镇居民》 Palmetto Leaves, 1873 《棕榈叶》

Influence
Uncle Tom's Cabin has exerted an influence equaled by few other novels in history. Upon publication, Uncle Tom's Cabin ignited a firestorm of protest from defenders of slavery while the book elicited praise from abolitionists. As a best-seller, the novel heavily influenced later protest literature.
Final section
Cassy later discovers that Eliza is her longlost daughter who was sold as a child. Now that their family is together again, they travel to France and eventually Liberia, the African nation created for former American slaves. George Shelby returns to the Kentucky farm and frees all his slaves. George tells them to remember Tom's sacrifice and his belief in the true meaning of Christianity.

Background

Harriet Beecher Stowe(1811-1896), comes from a family with good Christian, she was deeply influenced by Christianity and became a pious Christian. As her family were all opposing to raising slaves, she was influenced by them and held the anti-slavery belief.
Main Characters
• • • • • • • • 1.Tom 2.Eliza 3.George Harris 4.George Shelby 5.Eva 6.St. Clare 7.Topsy 8.Simon Legree
1.Name card
Name: Tom Age: about 40 Sex: male Country: Africa Work: slave Family: Aunt Chloe and three children Faith: Christianity Qualities: obedience, honesty, loyalty
She lives in Cincinnati city in Ohio, one of anti-slavery places and a terminal for slaves escaping to the north. Housing fugitive slaves, hearing of more about slave’s wretched sufferings. Visiting plantations in Kentucky, seeing with her eyes slaves’ misery.

Harriet Beecher Stowe acknowledged that she was partly inspired to create Uncle Tom's Cabin by the slave’s narrative The blending of pious belief in Christianity and abolishing slavery resulted in Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Eliza escaped with her son,and Tom was sold to another slaver Augustine St. Clare and already befriended with his daughter- Eva.
Eliza's family hunted, Tom's life with St. Clare