Beloved
Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an
escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrench
herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and
buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable of killing her
baby and not gone mad. Sethe, who now lives in a small
house on the edge of town with her daughter, Denver, her
mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, and a disturbing, mesmerizing
apparition who calls herself Beloved. Sethe works at
'beating back the past,' but it makes itself heard in her
memory; in Denver's fear of the world outside the house; in
the sadness that consumes Baby Suggs; whose childhood
belonged to slavery. Sethe's struggle to keep Beloved from
gaining possession of her present and to throw off the
long-dark legacy of her past.
Morrison attempts to show us the horrors of slavery through
its affect on these characters. One way that she does this is
by showing how desperate the characters are to get
themselves and their loved ones away......
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