Apart from her psychological strength, Sethe`s powerfulness is also visible in her physical features (Rindchen, 2002). Even though she is pregnant, she decides to escape from the community in the Sweet Home when the Schoolteacher begins to rule over the slaves. All the men characters do not succeed in leaving the community. Some of them are caught while escaping and some lose their minds because of their psychological weakness. Not only Sethe does successfully leave the Sweet Home community but she also manages to raise her children without any help. She even states that “[n]ot since that escape had she felt so alive” (Beloved, 1988: 191). Though she manages to leave the Sweet Home, she can hardly adjust herself to the new situation. In the
