Identity In Toni Morrison's Beloved

Morrison has created memorable African American characters who struggled to live their lives as full individuals with their triumphs and tragedies. Her characters overcome the brutality of slavery, racial and economic oppression and sexism; they depend on their own inner strengths, spirituality and love of their African American culture. In her writings, Morrison shows the invisible bonds of the African American community. According to Morrison, her characters go through difficult circumstances. But by adhering to their true self and identity, they are able to shape their lives. By the end of her novels, as Morrison said, “People always know something profound and wonderful”.
Toni Morrison was delving into this question of American identity and the ‘African’ presence in the inevitable assimilation process of the American …show more content…
• To demonstrate the power of the community and the search for identity are recurrent motifs in Beloved
• To discuss the various notified and vital themes in the novel Beloved
• To find out the untold oppression and the inexplicable plight of the slaves in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
• To discuss the black woman that was repressed both in literature and in life, she emphasizes the role of the community and that of the black man in this rescue and shows how community, male, and female, complement each other in the search for identity.
• To demonstrate how Morrison draws on history, memory, magic and imagination in order to invert Western assumptions about femininity and motherhood and to create new possibilities for this representation.
• How Morrison shatters the notion of objective reality and revealing the layers of meanings that exist both in fiction and in life through