Dr. Luftig
Eng. 102 In Beloved Toni Morrison developed the devasting effect of slavery and its attendant evils as these effects manifest themselves through multiples generations of family.
Sethe experience violence physically and mentally at 124 Bluestone Road and more treated like
Animals as a result the attempts to run away from sweet home and later she driven to kill her two years old baby. The trauma of slavery of is such that no one touched by is able to break free of the past even years after physical liberation. This is true of the novel’s protagonist, Sethe a formerly enslaved woman living Cincinnati after the civil war, as a young woman while heavily pregnant with her fourth child, Sethe escaped from a life of slavery …show more content…
Their unhealthy relationship just continues to grow and their bond becomes so strong that Denver’s fear of losing beloved seems to be life threatening To Denver. When Beloved pretends
To leave Denver has broken down: “Denver breaks her sobs. She doesn’t move to open the door because there is no world out there:” Pg.145.
Beloved instantly returns seem to know the hold she has over Denver and used it to her advantage. Denver continues with her obsession with Beloved until she starts to realize that Beloved really doesn’t care about her at all. Seems to be only interested in Sethe.
Sethe thought that before a love relation she had others responsibilities her relation with Paul D has to come in the last place:” I have other things to worry about Beloved, about age and sickness not to speak of love.” Pg.83
Denver found out that Beloved sucked the life out of her mother, she looked for help to get rid of her, and it worked the whole community come to assist her getting Beloved to move out of the house. This loss was the first time good for booth deal with problem of memories.
The job she started out with , protecting Beloved from Sethe , changed to protecting her mother from Beloved . Now it was obvious that her mother could die and leave them and what