Racism In Unvle Tom's Cabin And The Octoroon
To this day racism in the United States is still an issue in society; Julie Zanger from Southern Illinois University says “By the time the most important of these works—Unvle Tom’s Cabin and The Octoroon—were written, the characters had alredy acquired certain stereotypic qualities and had come to appear in certain stereotypic situations” in her article “The ‘Tragic Octoroon’ In Pre-Civil War Fiction.” Racism can be dated back from the seventeenth century to the nineteen sixties. Racism is the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to the race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. The worst of this case was during the time of slavery in the south of
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1861. He though that the fact that the American society had laws specifically for slaves limiting their rights and freedoms was “an institution and injustice.” All though in Louisiana there was Code Nori which pretty much made a slave a human being with a soul buy having them be instructed in the catholic faith they were still slaves non the less and had rights and freedoms taken from them. Boucicault believes that in the death of Zoe, the octoroon girl, lays a moral teaching. He believes that if she had been saved and had a fairytale ending where the prince, George, marries the princess, Zoe, then “the horrors of her position, Irremediable from the very nature of the institution of slavery, would subside into the condition of a temporary annoyance” which is understandable because if he does not show the true nature of being an octoroon and the decision that she must make then the “Institution of slavery” will become less severe to the point where it is no longer and issue, it is the norm of society. Because Zoe loves George she has committed an act against society. She believes that the because he is of higher status on the chain she cannot commit herself to a society that demands her to end her love in which case she removes herself from the equation and commits
1861. He though that the fact that the American society had laws specifically for slaves limiting their rights and freedoms was “an institution and injustice.” All though in Louisiana there was Code Nori which pretty much made a slave a human being with a soul buy having them be instructed in the catholic faith they were still slaves non the less and had rights and freedoms taken from them. Boucicault believes that in the death of Zoe, the octoroon girl, lays a moral teaching. He believes that if she had been saved and had a fairytale ending where the prince, George, marries the princess, Zoe, then “the horrors of her position, Irremediable from the very nature of the institution of slavery, would subside into the condition of a temporary annoyance” which is understandable because if he does not show the true nature of being an octoroon and the decision that she must make then the “Institution of slavery” will become less severe to the point where it is no longer and issue, it is the norm of society. Because Zoe loves George she has committed an act against society. She believes that the because he is of higher status on the chain she cannot commit herself to a society that demands her to end her love in which case she removes herself from the equation and commits