people have also thought "uncle tom's cabin" expressed the ideas of the free will movement. in this idea, the character of george harris symbolizes the free labor. the complex character of ophelia shows the northerners who allowed slavery, even though they did not like it. dinah is very different from ophelia. she acts by passion. in the book, ophelia changes. like ophelia, the republican party (three years later) declared that the north must change itself. it said that the north must stop slavery actively.