Beloved

In Beloved, the main character Sethe is haunted by a ghost who appears as a teenager. The ghost symbolizes the daughter she killed, Beloved, because she loved her child too much to bare the though of her being subjected to the tortures and brutality of slavery. The child wishes to make hr mother pay for killing her as a child, but Sethe understands her physical manifestation provides her with an opportunity to seek forgiveness and understanding for the act. The killing of Beloved was the end product of slavery. When Sethe was a slave she was unable to form a bond with hr children since they were officially the “property” of the slave owners (even when in her belly which is why the owner digs a hole to stick her swollen belly in before he whips her in the late stages of pregnancy). Once she develops this deep bond with her children she would rather see them dead than have to be subjected to the horrors of slavery. As she muses, “Look like I loved em more after I got her. Or maybe I couldn’t love ‘em in Kentucky because they wasn’t mine to love” (Morrison 162).

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Approximate Word count = 1047
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page)

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