Internal Roots of Tragedy: An Interpretation of Tom's Blind Loyalty and Submissiveness in "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

Autor/in	Kaifu, Chen
Titel	Internal Roots of Tragedy: An Interpretation of Tom's Blind Loyalty and Submissiveness in "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 12 (2019) 10, S.82-85 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	Novels; Slavery; United States History; Personality Traits; Intention; Ethics; Literary Criticism; African Americans + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Novel; Roman; Sklaverei; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Ethik; Literaturkritik; Afroamerikaner
Abstract	"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a reputed anti-slavery novel in American literary history. Tom, an unusually loyal and submissive slave, was sold to different slave masters again and again until he was tortured to death. Tom's tragic fate had multi-faceted roots. This paper tends to give an objective interpretation of Tom's personality so as to promote a better comprehension of this character and the intention of this novel. It's found that his blind loyalty and submissiveness are the defects in his personality leading to his tragic fate. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01