g or beatings. Like Uncle Tom, Little Eva serves as the model of love and compassion for others that Ophelia develops in the novel as it progresses. While she is forceful and efficiency, Ophelia is also good and her actions will eventually help in the attempt to rescue Uncle Tom. However, in her dialectics with Augustine we see that she recognizes this dichotomy within herself, but she, unlike Augustine, is willing to develop her good impulses and eliminate her bad ones. As she explains to him, “I suppose I deserve that you should reprove my shortcomings…but it does seem to me, after all, there is some difference between me and you. It seems to me I would cut off my right hand sooner than keep on, from day to day, doing what I thought was wrong. But, then, my conduct is so inconsistent with my profession, I don’t wonder you reprove me,” (Stowe 245).
The character of Topsy is dualistic as well because she is ignorant if energetic. Topsy does not know the difference between right and wrong, in a way an example by Stowe
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