The Kaleidoscope
Love is a simple word with a complex meaning. Love can either bring about the happiest, most exuberating moments or the most depressing, chaotic time in a person’s life. Although people would have better luck flipping a coin than finding their true love, something in the human psyche tells us to go to the ends of the earth to search for a piece of “love”, or what thousands of romantic comedies like 16 Candles defines as love. Everyone manages to find love in one form or another; however, each person has a different way of attaining love. For instance, in the novel Beloved by Toni Morrison, Sethe is facing the conflict of following her emotions or using her logic when cultivating relationships with people.
With this in mind, …show more content…
She duals with the concept of falling in love or remaining friends with Paul D after he stays in her home for a few days. Although Paul D presence at 124 is the “best thing” to happen to Sethe, she is uncertain whether to let her emotions reflect her feelings toward him (Morrison 273). Nevertheless Paul D’s constant flattery is met with uncertainty and hesitation from Sethe, because she does not believe loving a person besides her children is attainable for her. Since Halle, her husband, never shows up to their meeting spot to escape slavery, Sethe does not believe she is worthy of having a relationship with a man and she thinks God is punishing her for stabbing her children years earlier. Her uneasy demeanor towards Paul D’s affection is perhaps justified due to the fact that later he expresses that her “love is too thick” for him to continue on in a relationship with her (Morrison 173). He has reservations towards their relationship after he is made aware of Sethe’s violent attack on her kids in effort to shield them from a life of slavery. Paul D becomes fearful that Sethe will attempt kill him and say as a way to protect him as well in the name of “love”. Although her misgivings about loving a man is faulty, her qualms about entering into a relationship with Paul D are sustainable once he leaves her for loving her children too much. Sethe rationalizes a …show more content…
Love has no set of rule to follow. For example, in Beloved by Toni Morrison, Sethe’s uses both her emotional attachment and rationale to influence her decision on whether to fall in love with Paul D and Beloved. People use different methods of how to fall in love “properly” and sometimes it does not work out. It is okay. Use your knowledge from past relationships as a pathway to the next relationship, until you find that special person that will make the your chaotic, uncertainty and uncontrollable, happiness worth
Love is a simple word with a complex meaning. Love can either bring about the happiest, most exuberating moments or the most depressing, chaotic time in a person’s life. Although people would have better luck flipping a coin than finding their true love, something in the human psyche tells us to go to the ends of the earth to search for a piece of “love”, or what thousands of romantic comedies like 16 Candles defines as love. Everyone manages to find love in one form or another; however, each person has a different way of attaining love. For instance, in the novel Beloved by Toni Morrison, Sethe is facing the conflict of following her emotions or using her logic when cultivating relationships with people.
With this in mind, …show more content…
She duals with the concept of falling in love or remaining friends with Paul D after he stays in her home for a few days. Although Paul D presence at 124 is the “best thing” to happen to Sethe, she is uncertain whether to let her emotions reflect her feelings toward him (Morrison 273). Nevertheless Paul D’s constant flattery is met with uncertainty and hesitation from Sethe, because she does not believe loving a person besides her children is attainable for her. Since Halle, her husband, never shows up to their meeting spot to escape slavery, Sethe does not believe she is worthy of having a relationship with a man and she thinks God is punishing her for stabbing her children years earlier. Her uneasy demeanor towards Paul D’s affection is perhaps justified due to the fact that later he expresses that her “love is too thick” for him to continue on in a relationship with her (Morrison 173). He has reservations towards their relationship after he is made aware of Sethe’s violent attack on her kids in effort to shield them from a life of slavery. Paul D becomes fearful that Sethe will attempt kill him and say as a way to protect him as well in the name of “love”. Although her misgivings about loving a man is faulty, her qualms about entering into a relationship with Paul D are sustainable once he leaves her for loving her children too much. Sethe rationalizes a …show more content…
Love has no set of rule to follow. For example, in Beloved by Toni Morrison, Sethe’s uses both her emotional attachment and rationale to influence her decision on whether to fall in love with Paul D and Beloved. People use different methods of how to fall in love “properly” and sometimes it does not work out. It is okay. Use your knowledge from past relationships as a pathway to the next relationship, until you find that special person that will make the your chaotic, uncertainty and uncontrollable, happiness worth