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Human cruelty

Human cruelty was constantly present during the antebellum period. It is a vital part of America’s culture and it must be reiterated to new generations. In the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe recaps human cruelty through portraying the alteration in Mr. Shelby, affects the readers’ emotions by displaying views from various characters and demonstrates continuous separation of families during the antebellum period.
Mr. Shelby’s dynamic character is constantly modified in the first third of the book. In the beginning of the novel he is depicted as a protagonist due to the absence of the real protagonist, Uncle Tom, whose character is introduced in the later stages of the novel. Stowe illustrates him as a noble man by stating, “Mr. Shelby had the appearance of a gentleman� (2). This is one of the first lines in the novel and it abets the reader to envision him as fine, respectable person. Establishing him as a positive person at the start......

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