A Critical Analysis Of Paul D's Beloved

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ego. Her action also lets the readers know how death drive is connected to the dynamics of the family. In simple terms, Sethe does not handle the consequences well and she wants to be inflicted with pain by her daughter for what she has done and she doesn’t complain about it because she wants to be punished. But according to Freud and his Eros and Thanatos psychoanalytic examination, Sethe is driven by guilt i.e., her state of mourning exceeds its limit beyond and she tries to accept the reality of the loss of baby Beloved for the past 18 years but she denies her baby girls death. Her inability to move on gave life to her thoughts, eventually that became Beloved with soft hands and feet with no cracks. Even when Beloved stayed with Sethe, …show more content…

That is because Paul D wants to live, survive those horrors and Sethe doesn’t want to. Generally, men are taught not to give up in any situation and even if that goes same for women, feminists keep changing their base arguments according to their conveniences – “Women are strong and they strive for equal rights with respect” they say. But when they’re waylaid “Women are sensitive and generally they try and get established by themselves, for themselves.” What happens to men? Yet again they have a boxed set of rules that they believe to be true to heart. They try not to be weak; they let nothing inside them that would ruin their reputation. More like to the outside world men are not sensitive. If they are found to be sensitive, this world doesn’t want to see them as men that’d come inside the rulebook of being men. Men don’t want to be out casted for feeling emotions; yet they feel every little thing just like any living creature. Best example is Paul …show more content…

After years of being alone, the baby monkey became neurotic and definitely anti-friendly. Harry Harlow stated that every living creature needs mother’s unconditional love and utmost care; making a point that women’s great power is to love and feel things. His findings also state that men are just logical and they think to fix things. The YouTube video titled “Masculinity vs Femininity - Psychology Of The Male & Female Mind” by Leo puts forth a point about, men learn to deal with their pain logically and by ‘logically’ Leo means ‘shutting people out, being alone for hours’; women deal with their problems emotionally. Feminists need to accept this because that is how both the gender works like this from the moment they begin to form the brain in the womb. Surprisingly, the default brain of the child is feminine but the masculine brain is created due the sudden release of testosterone. This proves that, men can have a thought process similar to female and be feminine inside like Halle. Paul D tries to deal with it logically but feminists do not see him as a victim because he somehow handled with his trauma; well the sad truth is that the womenists want to believe that he handled it all. My survey named “Feminist Psychology” in Google Forms when shared and asked the people to answer 10 questions, one of the main questions was to

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