Uncle Tom's Cabin characters
He is a very old slave and the protagonist of the novel. His two dominative qualities are his inherent goodness and godliness. He is a passive Christ-figure. He always forgives people who do bad things to him and turns to God in times of crisis. After learning to read the Bible and write letters...
Tom's evil and tyrannical final master. If Tom is good, Simon is an evil. Legree is a Yankee who has moved to the South to make his money in the plantation business. Being a very big alcoholic, he brutalizes his slaves and forces them to live in the awful conditions that you can even imagine...
Here we come to the Topsy. This little girl makes a very big impact on Miss Ophelia. Topsy is a slave girl whom St. Clare bought for Miss Ophelia to reform. Being mistreated all her life, Topsy acts like the jovial, mischievous kid. She does not care at all about what white people or slaves think...
This is one of the good people in the story. He was Tom’s master in New Orleans. Also, he seems to be a very rich and romantic man. He started loving and being fond of Tom after the last saved his daughter in the river when she started drowning. St. Clare is an unstable man looking for faith...
Well, this woman deserves our attention for sure. She is intelligent, loyal, but also she leads herself as a queen sometimes. In the text, she is St. Clare's northern cousin. She is here to help him run the plantation affairs and a lot of other things. St. Clare buys Ophelia a slave so she can...
He is Tom's master in Kentucky. He is also described as being off the good characters in the novel. Shelby is characterized as a kind of slave owner, who cares about other people without paying attention to the color of the skin. You know, he is the stereotypical Southern gentleman. When...
The master and mistress' son. He is a good example of the proverb – Children doesn’t understand what is it being racists. Even at the beginning of the novel, when he is thirteen years old, he teaches Tom how to read! And that is incredible. Later, he tries to find Tom when he is...
She is also a typical lady of that times. As she wasn’t very important, we as well can’t say a lot about her. She wants to seem like she is very kind-hearted and moral. She tried to make only a moral influence on her slaves. But at the situation when her husband refuses to sell slaves...
We feel very sorry about this pure little miracle. She is the five-year-old "Little Eva"(as everyone calls her) and she is characterized as a beautiful, exciting, kind, moral and almost angelic child. She and Tom become best friends, and they are bonded by the common love they have for...
Well, not much is known about the Quimbo. Perhaps, it’s because this character is static and doesn’t make any big difference in human behavior with and without him. Still, he is the great example of Tom’s belief in the Lord. Quimbo is one of the Legree's overseers, who have...
Who is this pretty lady? She is Mrs. Shelby's maid, the wife of George and the mother of little Harry. Eliza is a charming mulatto. We mean, she is three-quarters white and has a very spiritual and docile nature. She loves her child and risks everything when she discovers that her son has been...