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分类号：I106.4 U D C：D10621-405-(2013)2161-0 密 级：公 开 编 号：2009111038 An Analysis of Uncle Tom’s Tragedy from the Perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism 论文作者姓名： 申请学位专业： 英 语 申请学位类别： 文 学 学 士 指导教师姓名（职称）： （副教授） 论文提交日期： 2013年 05月 20日 An Analysis of Uncle Tom’s Tragedy from the Perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism Abstract: Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a realistic work which is written by the famous American novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe. It is the masterpiece of the abolitionist literature, famous poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow regards the book as “one of the greatest triumphs recorded in literary history”. Extensive researches have come out by many critics at home and abroad since the novel was published, in which most researchers analyzed Uncle Tom’s tragic fate from his character or social reasons. For example, Zhang Xiujian who wrote An Analysis of Uncle Toms Tragedy from Historical Reason thought that the cruel slavery led Uncle Tom’s life to tragedy. Zheng Qin wrote An Analysis of the Character Tom in the Novel Uncle Toms Cabin and thought Tom was too submissive which led himself to a tragic life. Due to the profound elements in ethics and morality in this novel, the thesis analyzes Uncle Tom’s tragedy from the perspective of ethical literary criticism, which was put forward by Professor Nie Zhenzhao in 2004. Ethical literary criticism is an approach to analyze literature on the basis of introduction of ethical methods as well as the assimilation of them. This paper aims to analyze the causes of Uncle Tom’s tragic life through two layers of relationship, namely human-other relationship and human-society relationship. Through the analysis, the thesis proves that it is the indifference of interpersonal relationship and the unharmonious ethical dilemma of the relationship between people and society that actually lead Toms life to tragedy. Through analyzing Uncle Tom’s tragic fate by the theory of ethical literary criticism, t