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  This passage contrasts Marie’s self-serving hysteria with Miss Ophelia’s quiet, purposeful action, highlighting Stowe’s critique of white privilege and moral cowardice in plantation society. Marie weaponizes her grief and “hysteric fits” to silence discussion of the enslaved people’s suffering, using emotional manipulation to avoid confronting her own complicity. In stark contrast, Ophelia, seeing argument as futile, writes to Mrs. Shelby to advocate for Tom—a small but brave act of resistance that cuts through the household’s performative cruelty. Stowe uses this juxtaposition to argue that moral courage lies not in grand gestures, but in consistent, compassionate choices, and that even “well-meaning” inaction can perpetuate injustice. The scene also foreshadows Tom’s trauma as he is sent to the slave warehouse, linking white emotional indulgence directly to the dehumanization of Black lives.

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