Beloved & Much Ado

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

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iss them. Touch others with them, pat them together…You got to love it, you! And no, they ain’t in love with your mouth…You got to love it. This is flesh I am talking about here. Flesh that needs to be loved” (Morrison 88). The touching of others is important because Denver, Sethe’s other daughter, who also risked being killed by her mother but was spared from intervention, enlists the aid of the community to help keep Sethe from being irretrievably lost to the horrors of the past and the power of Beloved. While Sethe says Beloved’s power is no more powerful than the love she has for her, the community must help Sethe understand she can be free from her horrible past to face the future with some hope and promise. The past was unjust, abusive and powerful in its control over Sethe. But Ella, the lead figure who tries to exorcise Beloved from 124 Bluestone Road knows Sethe can only be free when she stops holding onto the past, a past that was imposed upon her by evil, hateful people, “Whatever Sethe had done, Ella didn’t like the idea of past errors taking possession of the present…Daily life took as much as she had. The future was sunset; the past something to leave behind. And if it didn’t stay behind, well, you might h
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Approximate Word count = 1832
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page)

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