Uncle Tom's Cabin Literary Analysis
Love, what is it? Is there a specific definition? To each person love can mean something else but, throughout the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe love causing pain is a recurring motif. The more one opens themselves up to another person, the more vulnerable they become to getting hurt from that second person. Throughout Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe portrays in her characters the desire for love, but due to the fact that the world is full of tragedies, the pain of those in dire situations is deepened by the loss of their loved ones.
Eliza, Mrs. Shelby's personal maid servant is married to George Harris, a slave from the next plantation over. Together they have a son named Harry. On the Shelby plantation Eliza has always been …show more content…
Augustine St. Clare a wealthy slave owner has only one thing in his life that he truly loves and cherishes, which is his daughter, Eva. Eva and her father are extremely close and she brings him great pleasure and joy. But as Eva begins to mature mentally and begins to understand more of what goes on in the world, it taxes her physically. Eva's health begins to wane and she becomes deathly ill. She knows she will soon die but her father refuses to believe so and all her talk of death pains him. He tells her everyday how much he loves her and all that she means to him. "When you are dead, Eva," said St. Clare, passionately, "O, child, don't talk to me so! You are all I have on earth" (Stowe, 316-317). Due to St. Clare's lack of religiosity he has no true meaning to his life and therefore has nothing to cherish but his daughter. Because she is the only thing in the world that St. Clare loves he is all the more devastated by her death, and is not able to overcome the loss of that which he loved the most.
Susan and Emmeline a mother and daughter waiting in the slave warehouse, about to be sold the next day, neither one can sleep at night. Susan, Emmelines mother is dreading the next day with a passion. She is scared for her daughters life and what will become of it. Emmeline had been raised in a Christian home and taught morals and faith, but Susan knows what lays out there
Eliza, Mrs. Shelby's personal maid servant is married to George Harris, a slave from the next plantation over. Together they have a son named Harry. On the Shelby plantation Eliza has always been …show more content…
Augustine St. Clare a wealthy slave owner has only one thing in his life that he truly loves and cherishes, which is his daughter, Eva. Eva and her father are extremely close and she brings him great pleasure and joy. But as Eva begins to mature mentally and begins to understand more of what goes on in the world, it taxes her physically. Eva's health begins to wane and she becomes deathly ill. She knows she will soon die but her father refuses to believe so and all her talk of death pains him. He tells her everyday how much he loves her and all that she means to him. "When you are dead, Eva," said St. Clare, passionately, "O, child, don't talk to me so! You are all I have on earth" (Stowe, 316-317). Due to St. Clare's lack of religiosity he has no true meaning to his life and therefore has nothing to cherish but his daughter. Because she is the only thing in the world that St. Clare loves he is all the more devastated by her death, and is not able to overcome the loss of that which he loved the most.
Susan and Emmeline a mother and daughter waiting in the slave warehouse, about to be sold the next day, neither one can sleep at night. Susan, Emmelines mother is dreading the next day with a passion. She is scared for her daughters life and what will become of it. Emmeline had been raised in a Christian home and taught morals and faith, but Susan knows what lays out there