Beloved Analysis

Freedom is the power to act, write, or speak without restraint. Some are still very cautious with what they say or do because they are afraid of what other people will think. Sethe goes through many obstacles through slavery and wanting freedom from the whites. “I used to be a good size. Nice arms and everything. Wouldn’t think of it, would you? That was before they put me in the root cellar” (Morrison). Beloved goes the physical, emotional, and spiritual devastation wrought by slavery, continues to haunt the characters who are former slaves even in freedom. Through this they characters, such as Sethe, learn lesson from them and realize that things happen for a reason and make them stronger. Slaves were told they were subhuman and were traded …show more content…
Because of this, the baby ghost of her deceased daughter haunts her conscience and is later resurrected to further torment Sethe about her act of love. With the justifications of Sethe's actions and with Morrison’s use of this conflict to recreate history in relaying the harshness of slavery in this time period. “Slavery, however, has "punched the glittering iron out of Sethe's eyes, leaving two open wells" that reflect the emptiness in her soul”(Beloved). The fact that slavery and racial equality still have not gone away yet has a large impact on Sethe. Although she had become stronger because of this. Sethe is a character that killed her own daughter to keep her from slavery and being treated like an animal. “The ghost of her own daughter haunted her because of it and wanted Sethe, her mother, to do something about it. Sethe would listen to anything her daughter said to take upon the fact that she doesn’t want to live this way anymore”(Morrison). Sethe would get signs from her to stand up for what she believed in or talk back to someone that didn’t treat her right and from this Sethe doesn’t stand down to anyone anymore. She listens to herself and doesn’t want any negativity in her life based off of all the event that she had to go