The Power of Uncle Tom's CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, had a huge impact on American culture, then and now. It is still considered a controversial novel and many high schools have banned it from their libraries. What makes it such a controversial novel? One reason would have been that the novel is full of melodrama and many people considered it a caricature of the truth. Others said that she did not show enough of the horror of slavery, that she showed the softer side of it throughout her novel. Regardless of the differing opinions of its readers, it is clear that its impact has been considerable. For example, many characters in the book became stereotypes of slavery in the South. An example of this is Uncle Tom himself, whose name was eventually degraded into a nickname for black people who were too submissive to white people. He became the stereotype of the passive slave who would do whatever his master told him, because it was his duty as a slave. However, few people remember how the strength of his faith allowed him to tolerate the horrors inflicted on him. Another example of Stowe's character stereotypes is that of Aunt Chloe, Uncle Tom's wife, and her children. Aunt Chloe is a great example as she has become the stereotypical “Aunt Jemima”. She had a “round, black, shiny face” and wore a checkered scarf, and she worked in the kitchen, tending the cooking and basically running the house. Not to mention that for many years, black children were still stereotyped as mischievous, such as Mose, Pete, and, later in the novel, Topsy. Even slave owners and traders are now stereotypes. Mr. Shelby and his wife became slave-owning "gentlemen and ladies" who considered themselves good Christians and tried to take good care of their slaves, but still did not view blacks as equal to whites. Simon Legree became the stereotypical cruel master, who let his estate go to hell, but continued to work his slaves too hard and beat them to death (or, in the case of Tom and others, to death) when they did not behave as he thought. should.However, this novel had other influences on American culture. After its publication, it helped spread the ideas of the abolitionist movement..