SIMON LEGREE Definition & Meaning

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Simon Legree

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the brutal plantation owner in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin who abuses and murders several enslaved people.
any harsh, merciless master:
Our math teacher is a Simon Legree.

Legree, Simon

The cruel overseer and owner of slaves in Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe . Though the book describes conditions in the slaveholding states of the South, Legree, the most vicious character in it, is from New England .

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Samuel Pinchard, the plantation owner, is a literary descendant of Simon Legree, but Jeffers has drawn him in the full height of psychological complexity.

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Naturally, a Simon Legree figure is always handy to do their dirty work, while highborn white ladies dither prettily in the background…

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Men and women read it, talked about it, cried over the death of Little Eva and of Uncle Tom, shuddered at the cruelty of Simon Legree.

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Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” takes place just before the Civil War but celebrates a once-enslaved black man exacting vengeance against an evil plantation owner who makes Simon Legree look genteel.

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Round about Cairo, with and without the Assistance of the Dragoman or Simon Legree of the Orient XIII.

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