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Morality in Uncle Tom's Cabin

Orange Morgane & Begin Colombe

How morality is portrayed in UTC ?

"a principle concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior"

Oxford Languages

1. What is morality ?

What is morality ?

"This is God's curse of slavery! [...] a curse to the master and a curse to the slave! I was a fool to think I could make anything good out of a such a deadly evil. It is a sin to hold a slave under laws like ours"

- Mrs Shelby to her husband, chapter 5

"Morality is usually defined as principles (normally internal) which guide differentiation

between right and wrong. Many Christians, however, define moral actions as either sinful

action or God-honoring action. Christians believe that morality is set by God and modeled by

his son, Jesus."

Ethics Vs. Morals From the Christian Perspective

2. First effects on the reader...

  • duality between good and bad morality

  • reference to several characters

  • heroism

First effects on the reader..

2.a. White characters

  • emblematic

  • 'good master'

  • dehumanizing slave

  • beast

White people are morally bad

  • Mr Haley

"Some folks don't believed there is pious niggers Shelby [...] but I do"

chapter 1

  • Marie St Clare

  • Simon Legree

"from the moment that Tom saw him approaching, he felt an immediate and revolting horror at him"

chapter 30

2.b. Black characters

Black people are morally good

  • faith

  • profitable slave

  • devoted to God

  • martyr

  • Uncle Tom

"features were characterized by an expression of grave and steady good sense, united with much kindliness and benevolence"

chapter 4

"I'm in the Lord's hand"

chapter 10

"There ain't no more you can do, I forgive you with all my soul!"

chapter 40

2.c. Women

  • supportive role for men

  • wives or mother

  • family

  • rejected

  • heroine

Women's morality

  • Eliza

"the huge green fragment of ice on which she alighted pitched and creaked as her weight came on it"

chapter 7

"Deeds of heroism are wrought here more than those or romance, when defying torture, and braving death itself, the fugitive voluntarily threads his way back to the terrors and perils of that dark land"

chapter 43

3. ... and its subtleties

.. and its subtleties

  • abolitionist movement

  • 'too good for this world'

  • evolution

  • hypocrisy

  • moral failure

  • heaven and hell

3.a. White characters

  • abolitionist

  • humanizing

  • pure friendship

  • angelic and innocent child

  • "Little Women", Louisa May Alcott

Good white people

  • Mrs Shelby

"I would as soon have one my children sold"

chapter 1

  • Mas'r George

"ashamed"

chapter 10

  • Evangeline St Clare

"There stood the two children representative of the two extremes of society

chapter 20

3.b. Black characters

  • George Harris

"I an't a Christian like you Eliza; my heart's full of bitterness; I can't trust in God. Why does he let things be so?"

chapter 3

  • mulatto slave

  • good and intelligent worker

  • absence of faith

Bad black people

3.c. Morality can change : Miss Ophelia

Miss Ophelia

  • evolution

  • presence of black people

  • values

  • educate

  • own child
  • Miss Ophelia

"your house is so full of these little plagues, now, that a body can't set down their foot without treading on 'em. I get up in the morning, and find one asleep behind the door, and see one black head poking out from under the table, one lying on the door-mat, -and they are mopping and mowing and grinning between all the railings, and tumbling over the kitchen floor! What on earth did you bring this one for?"

chapter 20

"Topsy, you poor child, [...] don't give up! I can love you."

chapter 27

3.d. Women

Marie St Clare

  • Marie St Clare

  • non-maternal woman

  • self-centered

  • apathetic

  • moral failure

conclusion

  • land of the free

  • culture

  • people beliefs

  • morally broken

THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

sources

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56dee43ee321400514f98522/t/5761499f7c65e4e3209c465b/1465993631776/2+Ethics.pdf

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/uncletom/character/simon-legree/

https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/uncle-toms-cabin/evangeline-st-clare

https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/uncle-toms-cabin/george-harris

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Uncle-Toms-Cabin/Major-themes-and-influences

https://muse.union.edu/his226-wi18/2018/02/04/morality-and-the-slaveholders-of-uncle-toms-cabin/

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