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THE BLACK?S STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM IN UNCLE TOM?S CABIN WRITTEN BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE: A MARXIST APPROACH

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The object of the research is the novelentitled Uncle Tom?s Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This study is primarily intended to identify how the major character struggle for freedom in Uncle Tom?s Cabin uses Marxist approach, and to analyze the novel based on its structural elements.
In analyzing the novel, the paper attempts to answer three research questions. 1) ?What kind condition did the black people experience in the novel??; 2) ?How is the black?s struggle for freedom reflected in the novel??; 3) ?How is Marxism applied in society in the novel?. Then the objective of the study is to present and discuss the structural elements of Uncle Tom?s Cabin and then to present and discuss Marxist perspective of Uncle Tom?s Cabin.
The writer uses qualitative method in conducting the study. The primary data is the novel itself which consists of dialogue, narration, action, phrase and idea of the novel. The secondary data are the references, such as: the author?s biography, essays, comments, and other relevant information which support the subject matter. The data collecting technique is documentation and library research, while the data analyzing technique is descriptive. The writer uses Marxist theory as a means
The result of the data shows as follows: Firstly, the structural elements of this novel presents a unity. Harriet Beecher Stowe employs the traditional plot that represents exposition, conflict, climax, and denouement. She takes abolition to abolish the slavery that has robed human?s rights as her theme. The characters in Uncle Tom?s Cabin consist of two opposing characters that are represented by the white as the masters or the oppressors and the black as the slaves or the oppressed. And the novel has close relationship with the social reality of American in the Mid-Nineteenth century. Secondly, it describes the struggle of labor and capital. Uncle Tom, Harris, and Eliza who comes from poor class struggle to get the equal prosperity that can be categorized as Marxist attitude. Stowe?s view on Black?s struggle for freedom is that black?s struggle is needed. When the white always treat them cruel, injustice, and inhumane, they have to struggle in order to get freedom, right, opportunity as the white do, because God has created all men free and equal.

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00073-2015-BING

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: ., 2015

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English

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Struggle, Marxism

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