cle 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. This debate was a similar one between many Americans of the period. As Ophelia explains to Tom, “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, as dualistic as the debate was over slavery, because she is ignorant if energetic. Topsy does not know the diff
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