The novel Beloved by Toni Morrison explores many themes that convey the lives of the black slaves. Morrison explores slavery into a greater depth through the main characters by portraying the thoughts and experiences of oppression. The protagonist of the novel Sethe, the mother of Denver and Beloved goes through many tragic events that are not limited to physical beatings and verbal attacks from Schoolteacher that shape Sethe’s characterization in the novel. Morrison uses Sethe to portray the dehumanization of slaves through the use of flashbacks that relate to her experience before she became a free slave Sethe is not the exception to the millions of slaves who were beaten for unjustified motives. Sethe’s flashback to her treatment at Sweet Home implies her distress through her memory of a spiteful experience.
“I’ve never seen it and never will. But that’s what she said it looked like. A chokecherry tree. Trunk,branches, and even leaves. Tiny little chokecherry leaves. But that was eighteen years ago. Could have cherries too now for all I know… ‘I had milk,’ she said. ‘I …show more content…
She always remembers being socially deprived when Schoolteacher presented her with animal characteristics. Not being able to someway be move on from “You got two feet, Sethe, not four,” he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; trackless and quiet.” Morrison, conveys her novel with figurative language and motifs that portray much more than what is written in the words.Schoolteachers words account many events in her life where she is told she related to an animal instead of a human. “I am full God damn it of two boys with mossy teeth, one sucking on my breast the other holding me down, their book-reading teacher watching and writing it up.” (136) She is oppressed and cannot let go of her past. Morrison uses biblical allusions to convey the treatment of
“I’ve never seen it and never will. But that’s what she said it looked like. A chokecherry tree. Trunk,branches, and even leaves. Tiny little chokecherry leaves. But that was eighteen years ago. Could have cherries too now for all I know… ‘I had milk,’ she said. ‘I …show more content…
She always remembers being socially deprived when Schoolteacher presented her with animal characteristics. Not being able to someway be move on from “You got two feet, Sethe, not four,” he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; trackless and quiet.” Morrison, conveys her novel with figurative language and motifs that portray much more than what is written in the words.Schoolteachers words account many events in her life where she is told she related to an animal instead of a human. “I am full God damn it of two boys with mossy teeth, one sucking on my breast the other holding me down, their book-reading teacher watching and writing it up.” (136) She is oppressed and cannot let go of her past. Morrison uses biblical allusions to convey the treatment of