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A 6 page paper discussing these three novels by Charles Brockton Brown, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The paper concludes that in each of these novels, the characters had a choice about whether or not they intended to be a victim -- and for better or worse, the choice transformed their lives forever. Bibliography lists the three books as sources.
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Uncle Tom and Eliza to this attempted victimization are very different. This paper will analyze those responses, and show how regardless of the choice made, the victimization presented a turning
point, a transformation, in each characters life. In Browns novel, the Wieland family is destroyed by the deception of a stranger. In this case, the stranger is Carwin, who is
first categorized as ragged, ugly and clownlike, but to whom Clara Wieland is inexplicably drawn because of his unusual manner and beautiful voice. In a way, Claras fascination with the
man who would later contribute to the destruction of her family mirrors the morbid fascination of the early American settlers with the Indians. The fact that Carwin is only described
as "dark," not Indian, and the fact that Wieland is set in the heart of civilization and not out on the untamed frontier does nothing to dissipate the sense of
looming danger. Apparently this sense of danger was endemic to the early colonists of New England; even though the wilderness no longer existed, a kind of race-memory of those days
persisted, and would persist for several more generations. In this novel, Brown focuses on the Wieland familys fear in the face of dangers half real and half illusory. The supernatural
origin of the mysterious voices turned out to have a quite natural explanation, but there is nothing particularly comforting in the fact that an oppressor is human instead of spiritual
-- he is still an oppressor, and they are still victims. Clara herself is presented to us as a model of the perfect young American woman. We are impressed with
her intelligence -- she believes in the rationalist principles of the Enlightenment -- but in Browns world this only amplifies her other qualities of virtue, purity, and propriety. While she
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