Sethe’srememories about that horrendous past were so agonizing that they came in broken and disconnected parts in which the death of her mother was fused with of her daughter’s.Indeed, Sethe’s real healing initiates with her reintegration into her community, at the end of the novel, because being part of a community again means that she was not alone anymore, as she felt after her mother’s and daughter’s deaths. The community ritual of rescuing her is a symbol of forgiveness.
Morrison brings in the community of Cincinnati, Ohio as the agency of physical healing of Sethe by ostracising the ghost of Beloved from the grey and white house of 124, Bluestone Road. The community of women plays a significant role in throwing the ghost out from Sethe’s mind and home. However, the community was always already but Sethe failed to …show more content…
Once she kills her baby is jailed and then freed, all the while failing to ask the community to aid her, the community shuns her and her children. For her failure to seek the assistance of the community, of the village, is perceived as arrogance which cannot be and is not tolerated by the community as a whole and by women in particular. Sethe, for her part, believes that the community will not help her even if she did ask which, of course, is erroneous. The healing of Sethe and her home takes place mostly as a result of the community of women’s actions in the novel, although Paul D. and Stamp Paid, representing the men of the community, also undergo and aid the healing process. But as in most of Morrison's novels, women take center stage within the community. The men, for the most part, remain nameless except for the two main ones, while readers get a bit closer to the female members of the community who encounter the people and
Morrison brings in the community of Cincinnati, Ohio as the agency of physical healing of Sethe by ostracising the ghost of Beloved from the grey and white house of 124, Bluestone Road. The community of women plays a significant role in throwing the ghost out from Sethe’s mind and home. However, the community was always already but Sethe failed to …show more content…
Once she kills her baby is jailed and then freed, all the while failing to ask the community to aid her, the community shuns her and her children. For her failure to seek the assistance of the community, of the village, is perceived as arrogance which cannot be and is not tolerated by the community as a whole and by women in particular. Sethe, for her part, believes that the community will not help her even if she did ask which, of course, is erroneous. The healing of Sethe and her home takes place mostly as a result of the community of women’s actions in the novel, although Paul D. and Stamp Paid, representing the men of the community, also undergo and aid the healing process. But as in most of Morrison's novels, women take center stage within the community. The men, for the most part, remain nameless except for the two main ones, while readers get a bit closer to the female members of the community who encounter the people and