The Fate Of Twisted Love

11.”What really makes you alive is love.”Pg246¶4 This is the author talking about his family

Compare and contrast the ways McEwan and Fitzgerald present the complexities of human love in light of this comment.

Sethe says she believes she won't even have to explain her motives for killing her (a love so great she can't let her be taken into a life of slavery). "I don't have to remember nothing," Sethe tells herself on page 183. "I don't even have to explain. She understands it all." Sethe believes the one true way she will find restitution and understanding with Beloved, is by knowing the mark she has left on her daughter. "I only need to know one thing. How bad is the scar?" Sethe feels that by knowing the scar, by touching the "memory of a smile under her chin," she can feel her daughter's pain and connect with her.

Even in her death, her deceased family is the first thing that comes to her mind, as presented when the text states, “I remember my mother now, my brother, drumming their legs into the other world”

In this book there is a large display of violence and savagery. Due to the circumstances it is understandable that there would be some poor choices. Unfortunately these displays of savagery and violence come from a natural instinct and some times are fear driven. These young children were thrown in to an unmanageable situation, I will be breaking down the idea of savagery, violence as I saw them presented in the novel.

The main character Sethe struggles with her haunted legacy of slavery, from her threatening memories and in the form of her dead daughter. Sethe’s existence in the present is a struggle in which she struggle in the past and the painful experiences she had to endure of her daughter’s death and at Sweet Home. Slavery would destroy the victims’ traditional family structures, or from forming. Slaves in the book, and in history were often deprived of the foundations of their identity aside from being servants to their master. Slaves were not able to get married because both of them would give a contract to one another. And slaves are already contracted to their owners, so there is not a sense of freedom. Sethe’s past has damaged her life and hoped to bring the pieces back together. Denver, Sethe’s fourth daughter, is very isolated from the black community that it prevents her from forming her own identity. In chapter five, it happened that Beloved seem to be a manifestation of Sethe’s infant daughter which was killed in order to be free from slavery. It was not clear if Beloved was an incarnation of the infant, spirit of a dead baby, or just a ghost. People assumed that she was the dead infant in a grown woman’s body. She represented as a baby in many ways, cannot walk, impaired

Her motherly love for her baby is so fervid that Sethe chooses to slit her throat instead of letting her become a slave. Sethe continues to justify her actions, "It ain't my job to know what's worse. It's my job to know what is and to keep them away from what I know is terrible. I did that” (194). Now, eighteen years later, when Beloved shows up, Sethe believes it is the ghost of her deceased child for a multitude of reasons.

Toni Morrison’s Beloved tells the story of a female slave, Sethe, and her dream of forging a family and freedom. Sethe’s life entailed a struggle from slavery to freedom; from a girl to a mother. The life of a slave deteriorated to a life comparable to a farm animal’s under the conditions of their labor and accommodations. Slavery is a topic that requires more than words to explain the hardships and feelings slaves endured. Because of this, Morrison utilizes symbols to convey the deep, dark themes of the separation of families, death, and chattel-like lifestyles of the enslaved.

daughters. Throughout the text, motherhood is shown to be an integral part of Sethe’s identity.

Raped by Schoolteacher’s students, she also bears the traumatizing experience of her violated relationship between herself and her daughter as they "stole [her] milk" (17). After this damaging event, Sethe resolves to prevent her children from ever having to go through the same horrors; this becomes her motivation for killing her infant daughter. She couldn't "let her or any of them live under schoolteacher. That was out" (163). Familial bonds became the most precious thing to Sethe, and she strives to thwart anything that threatens it.

Sethe overly loved her children because they were one of the few things that were free in her life. Her love was also a conduit to pay off the guilt that she felt from killing Beloved and attempting to kill the rest of her young. She harbors the most guilt from Beloved’s death, so once she reappears Sethe directs most of herself to that daughter. The feelings of remorse make her dependent on Beloved, corrupting the previously strong woman essentially a slave waiting on all of Beloved’s whims. Sethe is unable to leave the relationship because of the guilt, but she cannot come clean of it until she comes to terms with herself, leaving her in an unending cycle of emotional deterioration until the women of the community drive Beloved, the source of her issues,

The murdered girl expresses an expectation of divine retribution when she evoques, “ ‘O yonder is my father the king.’.../‘O yonder sitts my mother the queen.’.../‘O yonder is my sister that drowned mee.’ ”(14-16)

This excerpt is significant because it presents us with Sethe’s first moments of freedom. Her first thoughts are not of her new potential for life, but rather that something’s the matter, reflecting her worried nature. The following sentences reveal that she’s far more practical than vain. She has no interest in her appearance, but rather fixates on her hands. She’s far more focused on something she can act with, especially to help and serve others, than on her own vanity. Hands actually serve as somewhat of a recurring motif in the novel, between any slave’s calloused palms and Beloved’s fresh, baby-like hands. The next thing she notices is her own beating heart, which serves as an obvious symbol that Sethe’s life can finally begin.

Not too long ago I heard the news about the baby being born and how she is “so pretty it hurts [Deborah’s] eye” and how she loved her more than anything (249).

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