【正文】 we’s book, who is mentally and emotionally tortured by the violence of slavery that surrounds her. Perhaps, if she had lived, Eva may have assumed the role she proposes to St. Clare that she would go all around and try to persuade people to do right about this (quoted in Sundquist, 94). Though she hasn’t put her proposals into practice, Eva has made full use of her limited time to bring cosmic love to the earthly world. Grandma Stephens’ Influence on Tom LokerGrandma Stephens is a passionate, giving and emotional woman and has an easygoing appearance:Imagine a tall, dignified, spiritual woman, whose clear muslin cap shades waves of silvery hair, parted on a broad, clear forehead, which overarches thoughtful gray eyes. A snowy handkerchief of lisse crape is folded neatly across her bosom。 her glossy brown silk dress rustle peacefully, as she glides up and down the chamber.(Stowe, 396)However, by contrast, Tom Loker has a cruel appearance. He is a brawny, muscular man, full six feet in height, and broad in proportion. He is dressed in a coat of buffaloskin, made with the hair outward, which gives him a shaggy and fierce appearance. “In the head and face, every organ and lineament expressive of brutal and unhesitating violence was in a state of the highest possible development” (Stowe, 65). Tom is used to controlling his slaves violently. As he takes on the catching business of slaves, with the fists he breaks up unnumbered families of slaves’.When Tom is catching the fugitives, Eliza, George Harris and so on, he is shot by Harris and is taken to the home of Grandma Stephens who is called Dorcas. She is a kind nurse and most qualified to tend a sick person. There, Tom Loker, groaning and tousling, is soon carefully deposited in a much cleaner and softer bed which he has never been in the habit of occupying and his wound is carefully dressed and bandaged. In the course of the motherly supervision of Aunt Dorcas, affected by her Christian benevolence, Tom changes from a brutal slavecatcher to a hunter. Later, he even helps the fugitives to escape whom he once tries to catch like a dog catches a piece of meat. Tom informs them that their party will be looked for in the Sandusky, and that it is thought prudent to divide them into groups and escape separately. Thanks to the help of Tom Locker, George, Eliza and Harry at last get to Canada from Lake Erie and obtain their freedom. Throwing off the role of a slavecatcher, Tom chooses to live in one of new settlements. There his talents make himself much happier in trapping bears, wolves, and other inhabitants of the forest where he makes himself quite a name as a hunter in the land. ConclusionIn the novel, Stowe uses strongminded women to send a message to female readers that females can take active action against slavery, and has answered the question about what females could do to end the slavery in that period. From this point, Uncle Tom’s Cabin has pointed out a way for females to oppose slavery, but owing to the limitations of the times the novel also has its own limitation.In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe’s attaching the great importance to the role of females reflects her belief that females can exert considerable influence within the domestic circles. Mrs. Shelby, Mrs. Bird and even the little Eva do have influence in the nation’s political conflict, slavery, but they fight alone within the home, without walking out of their own front doors. “Stowe has proved that facing the evil of slavery, domesticity will release its restrained violent action in the name of freedom, so none of females in Uncle Tom’s Cabin bees involved in the public struggle against slavery” (Sundquist, 89). Although both Miss Ophelia and Mrs. Bird refuse to obey unjust law, the New Englander simply takes their slaves to the north where slavery is illegal and slaves’ education is available, and those slaves have to conform to the enlightened local status. From the above discussion, there is no doubt that Stowe’s illustration of female power in Uncle Tom’s Cabin has certain limitations. She largely restricts the female power to the domestic sphere. 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