"Uncle Tom's Cabin, " with its character of Simon Legree as the cruel white overseer, was the most passionate abolitionist book of its era.
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Larsen's scheme, especially that part of it that depends on Clare's Simon Legree husband, seems mechanical, a kind of standard fitting in a racial melodrama.
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Standard situations should have standardized decisions, so that one team will not have a doctor who is a ` wuss'and another a Simon Legree ."
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That really has to emerge from the gut, but this is an old-fashioned Simon Legree melodrama where all the conventions of the story are already there.
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The men prove themselves in training, despite a couple of accidents and unrelenting harassment by a villainous major who seems to be a descendant of Simon Legree.
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Tom explains when asked why he chooses to be killed by Simon Legree ( played by Edward J . Hyland with an obvious nod to Daryl Gates ).
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Described most kindly as " aloof " and " stern, " and most damningly as " a female Simon Legree, " she initially refuses to help without explanation.
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Tracked down by the purchaser, Simon Legree, to Bird's home, Mr . Bird out of goodness buys the boy and, giving him his freedom, gives him to his mother.
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Simon Legree in the novel is a northerner, but while Calhoun was born in Pennsylvania, he lived in South Carolina, Alabama, and Louisiana for much of his adult life.
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Radio playwright and director Norman Corwin cast Baer as Simon Legree in the 1969 KCET television reading of his 1938 radio play " The Plot to Overthrow Christmas ".
