Ghost In Beloved Research Paper

“Beloved” is a novel written by Toni Morrison, based on racial hierarchies and representation of the ghost in the novel challenges the racial hierarchies. This novel is based on a ghost who has returned to remind everyone about the past and to disturb the present as it is been successful with the association of ghosts and racial hierarchies. Ghosts are souls and spirits of the dead and they disrupt our logic of the separation of the living from the dead as this why ghosts are uncanny. “Beloved” is based not only on Beloved’s spirit but it represents all the characters from the past such as the black people. The novel “Beloved” is beyond language where it helps to break down the meaning of demanding things that are hard to understand in modest words. The ghost in this literature is …show more content…
Overall the novel “Beloved” is about the revolting truth of slavery, about ghosts and the way in which US continues to be haunted by the tragedy of the past.
“Beloved” is about history of a girl who died when she was a baby and returned to haunt all the people in the sweet house such as Paul and her mother Sethe for murdering her. “Not a house in the country ain’t packed to its rafters with some dead Negro’s grief. We lucky this ghost is a baby. My husband’s spirit was to come back in here? Or yours? Don’t talk to me.” (Morrison 2010, p5) this shows that Beloved is back. It also represents or signifies the inescapable, hideous and dreadful past of slavery of African Americans that arose in the past. "What I remember is a picture floating around out there outside my head. I mean, even if I don’t think it, even if I die, the