Paul's View Of Beloved

In the novel Beloved by Toni Morrison,the author develops the male figures through point of view, their names and internal conflicts to convey to the speaker that the past has a crippling affect on one’s actions and their present as a result.

“Beloved” by Toni Morrison moves among many perspectives, closing in a multitude of characters: third person limited, third person omniscient and first person in every character’s perspectives. The novel also changes tense - past to present. This defining feature closes on certain characters point to their problems and characteristics. Paul’s view on love is constrained to “lov[ing] just a little bit; everything, just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, …show more content…
"Cleary, Paul D view in love reveals, that in past relationships he has been so hurt that in order to prevent this, he loves a little. This proves Paul D to be closed in and sheltered as a human being. Conversely, when “Stamp Paid raised his fist to knock on the door he had never knocked on (because it had always been open to or for him) and could not do it... Since all his visits were beneficial, his step or holler through a doorway got a bright welcome. Rather than forfeit the one privilege he claimed for himself, he lowered his hand and left the porch.”The word, “beneficial” adds to his pride because he only associates his visits as only so. If the door is wide open for him at all times then it reveals that Stamp Paid’s visits are self contained and only benefit him. His views on himself as a savior and acknowledges the fact that he perceives himself entitled to be debtless because he is helping them out, not himself. Moreover, the differing points of views define the two characters in the novel by allowing …show more content…
self internal conflict which takes into massive action in defining Paul D and Stamp Paid as characters. Within this world the men of the South far inferior because they settle for stimulations such as commerce, racial violence, jealousy, rage and alcohol. However, the men of Beloved buy into lust and pride. By “[f]ucking her (Beloved) when he was convinced he didn't want to, [it]humiliated him and made him wonder if schoolteacher was right” about his masculinity. Men have will power. Because Paul D practices none, it demonstrates to the audience that Paul D to the audience that sex is not what makes a man a man. Any animal is to be known to have sex recklessly, but they aren’t known to be a man, hence mankind. By fucking Beloved, he isn’t defined as a man but an animal. As Stamp Paid states, that he has "private reason of his own," in acts of kindness such as picking two buckets of blackberries and ferrying slaves across to freedom, it points to the readers that he is not a noble man, but selfish. His gestures are made out of guilt because, it is clearly fulfills his own hidden agenda. These acts both posed a pivotable change for Sethe. The innocence of his berry picking has caused the community to harbor a hate for Sethe and Baby Suggs. Working against the newly found acceptance, his actions caused the community to fail to notify the four horsemen’s arrival, thus furthering