19世纪美国文学中的黑人形象大多是逆来顺受,鲜有自我意识的。到了20世纪20年代,随着哈莱姆文艺复兴的兴起,文学作品的黑人形象开始寻求人格的独立和自由,开始有了反抗意识。《汤姆叔叔的小屋》中的汤姆和《土生子》中的比格则是这两种截然不同黑人形象的代表。一、汤姆叔叔和比格不同的性格特征(一)汤姆接受命运安排,而比格奋起反抗《汤姆叔叔的小屋》中的主人公汤姆是一个甘于接受命运安排,甚至有些愚忠的人。他重视感情, Most of the black images in American literature in the 19th century were self-deprecating and self-conscious. By the 1920s, with the rise of the Harlem Renaissance, the black image of literary works started to seek personal independence and freedom and began to have a sense of resistance. Tom in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and Borg in “Native Son” are the representatives of two distinctly black images. First, the different personality characteristics of Uncle Tom and Beagle (a) Tom to accept the fate of the arrangement, and contested against “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” hero Tom is a willing to accept the fate of arrangements, and even some ignorant people. He attaches importance to feelings