Mr Shelby Character Analysis

The female characters in the novel are very strong and intelligent, and their sympathy and sense of common sense are in stark contrast with the inhuman nature of men. The women play the role of the husband and wife; become the guardian of social morality. Their compassionate nature, devout Christian faith and selfless maternal love deepen the sense of responsibility to save society. In a simple, almost all the female characters embody the Feminist salvation as wife to husband and mother to son.

Women in the works have a sense of morality, sense of responsibility, resourcefulness and courage, in which they are often better than men. In the face of the oppression of slavery, Stowe shows us an oppressed woman is how to use their influence to

Shelby, who was not religious, respected his wife's faith and showed great reverence for her. When Mr. Shelby was selling slaves to the slave owner, she was shocked and angry. She was ashamed of her husband and tried to persuade her husband not to sell the slaves. In the novel, the fifth chapter, we can sell slaves from about whether the dialogue between her and her husband that her aversion to slavery and hate and hope I can help her husband change idea, aware of the evils of slavery. However, in the social environment at that time, the status of men and women are unequal, all women's property belongs to her husband. Therefore, as a woman, Mrs. Shelby does not have absolute power to stop her husband's behavior; she can only obey her husband, but also can only rely on polite language influence husband. In addition, in her husband's debt, faced with the loss of all the property under the danger, Mrs. Shelby's rescue is mainly reflected in her husband's love. She is in the power of love, and strives to help her husband out of difficulties, get

She was a beautiful half breed slave girl, married to the half breed slave George. After the marriages of her two children are dead, so when the little Harry was born, Eliza is very fond of the little Harry, basically put all the feelings of the child. When she overheard Shelby couples talk that his son should be sold to the master slaver, she was anxious to flee the Shelby manor with her child. In the VII The Mother’s Struggle, Mrs. Stove affectionate to write: If it were your Harry, mother, or your Whillie, that was going to be torn from you by a brutal trader, tomorrow morning-if you had seen the man, and heard that the papers were signed and delivered, and you had only from twelve o’clock till morning to make good your escape-how fast could you walk? (Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, page 47) I believe after reading this passage, no one will not be moved. When she fled to the Ohio River, she found that there was a river in front of the road, followed by slave traders. She clared out de side door; she went down de river bank…Down she come to the river, and thar was the current running ten feet wide by the shore, and over t’ other side ice a sawin’ and a jigglin’up and down, kinder as ’ twere a great island…when she gin sich a screen as I never hearn, and thar she was, clar over t’ other side the current, on the ice, and then on she went, a screeching and a jumpin’s-the ice went crack! c’ wallop! chunk! And sjhe