摘要
本文以文本分析为主要研究方法,从社会文化和宗教的角度探讨了斯陀夫人笔下的主人翁汤姆叔叔的形象,基于中外评论家们对这一人物形象的误读,对于汤姆的心灵力量从两个方面提出了不同的见解。其一,是人道主义精神力量以及他对家人和社会的责任感造就了汤姆道德的正直、自尊、坚定、善良、同情心和智慧;其二是汤姆信仰的精髓是植根于黑人本土文化和宗教的教义,最终成就了重新诠释和修改了的白人基督教,并非对白人基督教的被动顺从。
This essay discusses Harriet Beecher Stowe＇s characterization of Uncle Tom in the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin through text analysis from the point of social culture and religion. It seeks to present a different idea about the inherent power of Uncle Tom on the basis of people’s misunderstandings concerning Uncle Tom＇s characters. Firstly, the humanitarianism and his love toward family and society helps to establish his moral integrity, self-respect, firmness, sympathy and wisdom; secondly, the soul of Tom’s belief roots deeply in the native culture of the black people and their own religion which finally contributes to forming a new modified version of Christianity of the white society with a new annotation. It’s not the passive obedience to Christianity of the white society.
