What Are Some Suc Christianity In Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a historical fiction that is inspired by the life of Josiah Henson. It is a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe and was first published in 1852. Uncle Tom's Cabin is wholly about slavery, how slaves were treated and how they lived. Christianity, the incompatibility with slavery and Christian beliefs, and the outright evilness of slavery are recurring themes.
From Uncle Tom's Cabin you can infer a lot of things about the period it comes from. What people's lives were like and what beliefs they held. You can see that people interacted with each other according to their beliefs and their suppositions. Even though slavery is such a morally abhorrent thing, people who actually possess good ethical morals are still environed by it. And even then, men who do possess such morals still come in small numbers, Stowe even says herself, "The number of those men who know how to use such wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small." Some …show more content…
Some ways people view Christianity are: a person believes it wholeheartedly; a person does not believe, but are influenced by a family member; a person believes, but they do not practice it accordingly; a person may deny it wholeheartedly; a person does not exactly know about it, but they've seen it in others. All of these examples can be found in the book's characters. Uncle Tom is a devout Christian; Mr. Shelby and Mr. St. Clare are not declared Christians, but are influenced by wife and daughter; Miss Ophelia, St. Clare's cousin and a northern abolitionist, is a Christian, yet she is racially prejudiced towards blacks and cannot stand them; Legree, the slave owner whom Tom eventually ends up with, and a man that could be described by the word abominable and all its synonyms, denies Christ with all his heart and cannot be swayed otherwise; and lastly, a slave. Slaves usually could not read and, therefore, had to rely on
From Uncle Tom's Cabin you can infer a lot of things about the period it comes from. What people's lives were like and what beliefs they held. You can see that people interacted with each other according to their beliefs and their suppositions. Even though slavery is such a morally abhorrent thing, people who actually possess good ethical morals are still environed by it. And even then, men who do possess such morals still come in small numbers, Stowe even says herself, "The number of those men who know how to use such wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small." Some …show more content…
Some ways people view Christianity are: a person believes it wholeheartedly; a person does not believe, but are influenced by a family member; a person believes, but they do not practice it accordingly; a person may deny it wholeheartedly; a person does not exactly know about it, but they've seen it in others. All of these examples can be found in the book's characters. Uncle Tom is a devout Christian; Mr. Shelby and Mr. St. Clare are not declared Christians, but are influenced by wife and daughter; Miss Ophelia, St. Clare's cousin and a northern abolitionist, is a Christian, yet she is racially prejudiced towards blacks and cannot stand them; Legree, the slave owner whom Tom eventually ends up with, and a man that could be described by the word abominable and all its synonyms, denies Christ with all his heart and cannot be swayed otherwise; and lastly, a slave. Slaves usually could not read and, therefore, had to rely on