Uncle Tom's Cabin

Mothers are women who cherish their family and would do anything for their children. The women in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s, Uncle Tom’s Cabin play a very important role concerning the importance of the family and their increasing acts of courageousness. Women throughout the novel are portrayed as leaders and mothers who would risk almost anything for their family. Eliza is a main character who plays an important role regarding her family. Her son …showed first 75 words of 316 total…

…showed last 75 words of 316 total…and Eliza’s son Harry, she ironically becomes concerned. This is ironic because she is portrayed as caring about the slaves but only because of her Christian values of mothering these “poor simple creatures” (UTC,38). Slavery is in fact wrong but she is more concerned with her Christian values of raising children but yet slavery is an act of cruelty. She even raises the family’s slaves with Christian values which is even more ironic.