Use of Biblical Imagery in Cather’s Sapphira and the Slave Girl

Using the image of the Bible inside the whole Caesar 's Safila and slave girl' Safila and slave girls', Cather uses the Bible image to portray important events. Specifically, Nancy's free flight, Mary overcame a potentially fatal illness. In describing the journey from Nancy's slavery to freedom, Catherz kept using the image of the Bible. For example, Mr. Colbert believed that Nancy "brought up better land from Egypt" and believed that he blew her from the Bible with the Hebrew slaves.

Cather's last book, Safira and a slave girl (1940), deepened this return with the environment of Virginia state. I returned not only to her own past, but also to her grandparents' past. Based on family history and the story of Virginia before the Civil War, the story explores the complex network of ethnic relations of Safira, the complexity of character, and the destructive nature of slave possession, trying to destroy a young slave girl. Someone who likes her husband. Safira's daughter, Mrs. Black (like Mrs. Harris of Cather's grandmother Rachel Bock) helped the girl Nancy to escape to the north. The conclusion after 25 years summarized his own memory of the return of Nancy, visited her mother, the faithful maid of Sahila, and the stories of these stories ended long ago.

The last two articles in the "Context" section are articles about Sapphira and slave girls. Janis Stout can find the origin of the unique complexity of Cather's novel, the ambiguity of its formation, its prospect, in "Wars Failed, Winning and Evaughter Daughters: Cather and ambiguity in civil war" Doubling that opinion and reasons for judgment, suggesting and flexibility of being flexible - In childhood experience, the loyalty of the conflict surrounding the conflict of the internal moral significance problem. A child between the Virginia and West Virginia civil war "border zone", a child between the civil war considered as an honorable place and a mysterious war to protect the barbaric exploitation of slavery, Katherine resonated with her work Fuzzy Explorer