The novel Beloved by Toni Morrison, displays the feminist ideologies and rights of women in a male privileged time period. Firstly, Sethe’s early life is spent as an oppressed slave on a plantation. She recalls, “...men and women were moved around like checkers” (Morrison 27). Sethe describes in vivid detail the life of slaves during this time where both women and men are prime examples of the “other”; the un-human members of society. In an attempt to save her children from slavery, Sethe sends them to Cincinnati to be raised by Baby Suggs. When they are discovered and ordered to return to the plantation, Sethe contemplates murdering all three of her children “Maybe. But if she’d only come, I could make it clear to her” (Morrison 17).
