Abstract
Uncle Tom’s Cabin is an anti-slavery novel written by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852. This novel intensified the conflict between the South and the North and propelled the breakout of Civil War in some way so as to have accelerated the success of Abolition Movement. Due to limited education degree, black people were only able to realize part of the meaning of the Bible , which was just those that the white people wanted them to know --- to be obedient. Gradually the slaves who believed in Christian were paralyzed in some way , which benefited the slave owners .This essay highlights Christian's mental paralysis to the black people in Uncle Tom's Cabin by analyzing Christian's influence on the character and fate of the people oppressed by slavery.
Keywords Christian Black Mental Paralysis Slavery
《汤姆叔叔的小屋》是美国作家哈里特.比彻.斯托于1852年发表的一部反奴隶制小说。该小说极力宣扬基督教博爱思想与奴隶制度的不相容，揭露奴隶制的罪恶，英语论文，英语论文范文，在某种程度上激化了美国南北内战地区的局部冲突，对美国奴隶制度乃至整个美国社会产生过意义深远的作用。本文将通过略论基督教在当时的美国社会和亟待颠覆的奴隶制度下对人物性格命运的深远作用，突出说明基督教对黑人的精神麻痹以及造成这种麻痹的原因及结果。
关键词 基督教 黑人 精神麻痹 奴隶制
Uncle Tom’s Cabin is an anti-slavery novel written by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852. The book aroused so much antislavery feeling in the North that Abraham Lincoln said to Mrs Stowe ," So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war." Growing up in a Christian family , in which her father and five of her brothers were ministers . Mrs Stowe was influenced by Christian all her life. As a result, religious culture goes through the story and determines people's character and fate. In this novel, Mrs Stowe strongly advocated the inconsistency between the thought of indiscriminate love in Christian and slavery, which intensified the conflict between the South and the North and propelled the breakout of Civil War in some way . |
