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Beloved - College Essays

Beloved

Sethe, now free from slavery has become a slave again, but this time instead of being a slave to a white master she is a, slave to her own pain. The sources of her pain are numerous, including the stealing of her milk, the murdering of her child, , attempting to kill the rest of her children, and two of her children leaving her because of it. When Sethe's murdered child, , returns, the pain she feels from these sources intensifies and begins to adversely effect her life. 's intentions put simply seem to be to control, Sethe to make her a slave, but Sethe, in the end, is able to break free of the slavery and pain by letting the pain go.
is the embodiment of Sethe's pain. is ...

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"the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay" (Morrison 42) and when her past, , catches up with her the future is gone and she is enslaved. What's more, does not intend to allow her slave to go free, "I will not lose her again." (Morrison 214)
When Beloved returns to the leaves it could be argued that she was either chased away by Sethe's rejections and liberation from her slavery, or that the relationship between Beloved and Sethe has changed. The possible change in the relationship could be that Beloved is no longer the embodiment of Sethe's pain, but just another part of her past that she can finally leave behind, making Beloved content to exist only in the deep recessed of Sethe's conciseness. Either way, Sethe has broken the shackles and can now live in the present and look forward to the future with the past behind her.

Sethe's slavery to her pain had her doomed to live forever in the past but with the letting go of her pain; she let herself be free. ...

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Added: 2/21/2004 11:51:15 PM
Category: English
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