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In this 10 page paper, the writer discusses how fictional works such as Uncle Tom's Cabin demonstrate how fiction can be successfully used to explain a situation on a personal basis to influence others. Issues concerning gender and racial stereotyping are examined as elements of Stowe's theme in an attempt to determine their level of historic realism. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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successfully used to explain a situation on a personal basis to influence others. Stowes now famous novel was one of the major factors in creating a force of public opinion
that influenced the North, and especially President Abraham Lincoln in starting the Civil War to free the slaves in the southern Confederate states. Therefore, it is worthy to study how
historical fiction can be used to personalize and criticize status quo social situations in which individuals are not treated as equals. Furthermore, in the research of Stowes writings, it was
found that such historical writings as Uncle Toms Cabin is currently being criticized for portraying African Americans as helpless, weak, and unable to free themselves with out the help of
white people, which further invalidated African Americans, and may have delayed their inclusion into American mainstream society. Other issues in the analysis of Stowes novel are in the way that
women were treated as well, and how Stowe saw women as also in the same patriarchal and constricted roles as African Americans. The main theme in the Stowes novel that
will be examined is the over all attitude toward slavery by the slaves and slaveholders alike in which slavery is a two-way avenue, by those that believe they are helpless,
and by those that believe the slaves are helpless as well. Intrinsically, such analysis will help the reader to decipher whether historical fiction such as this actually promotes reality
or unfortunate mythology. It should be noted that although the book was fiction, many people in the North thought that Uncle Toms Cabin
was real. Few readers at the time took notice that Simon Legree was a Northerner, and that Augustine St. Clare, was a Southerner who recognized the evils of slavery. The
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