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Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, reveals the effects of human emotion and its power to cast an individual into a struggle against him or herself. In the beginning of the novel, the reader sees the main character, Sethe, as a woman who is resigned to her desolate life and isolates herself from all those around her. Yet, she was once a woman full of feeling: she had loved her husband Halle, loved her four young children, and loved the days of the Clearing. And thus, Sethe was jaded when she began her life at 124 Bluestone Road-- she had loved too much. After failing to 'save' her children from the schoolteacher, Sethe suffered forever with guilt and regret.

The story first begins in a haunted house where a mother by the name of Sethe , and her daughter Denver harbor the burden of the ghost called Beloved. The setting of the characters living in this home, gave the reader a supernatural feel from the beginning of the novel. From every flashback of Sethe’s life to the smallest bit of the life she once had, Toni Morrison throws the reader back into a puzzling moment which forces the reader to evaluate the roots of Sethe’s life .Each setting revealed something different about the main character Sethe . The settings have revealed the way Baby Suggs impacted Sethe’s life, as well as the feelings she had towards the ...

Beloved developed from a baby to monstrosity due to her murder. In the novel, Beloved, the author Toni Morrison allows the reader to indulge in the life of the former slave mother, Sethe, and her family’s fight in the path to free themselves from their past lives. Throughout the novel, Sethe reveals that she had done the horror of killing her child Beloved because she did not want Beloved to live the life of slavery as she did. Beloved eventually haunts her being, from becoming a small figure that shakes the household to a real 19-year-old woman who wrecks havoc amongst the community and terrorizes those who come across her path in wanting to be with Sethe. Sethe and Denver, Sethe’s other child, both contribute to the horrors of Beloved by

The poem forces the reader to dig deeper and examine the indignant fear children feel from the darkness. Throughout the poem, there is a sense the reader is looking at Gretel through the eyes of a psychologist, listening to her devolving her deepest secrets about how the darkness has rendered her almost helpless or defenceless. Gretel is yearning for answers to the question “Why do I not forget” as she is haunted by the death of the witch. She confronts Hansel, “No one remembers. Even you, my brother / as though it never happened / But I killed for you.” Here Gretel has realised she has lost her innocence and her childhood has been robbed, like so many children of today’s world.

She didn’t know that that memory was going to only add to her daily hauntings. The memories of her cruel act against her children was only one more thing that added to the stack of her upsetting history. She spends her whole life trying to avoid thinking about her past, but that is a hard thing to overcome for a former slave who had to do unspeakable things in order to live. Further in the novel readers discover along with Sethe the ghost in which they call Beloved is the rebirth of her slayed daughter.... ... middle of paper ... ...novel Beloved by Toni Morrison there is a reoccurring theme that history will haunt you and it is shown in this novel by Beloved, Denver, and Sethe. Boris Kodjoe once said, “Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace.

Story-telling may be even more central in The Joy Luck Club, with the stories told as lessons throughout the daughters' young lives. But "Beginning with Gussie" also demonstrates that the daughters know about their mothers' past experiences: Tweedie knows the story of the romance between her mother and father; Rebecca knows her parents' story though she doesn't learn the whole of her mother's story until her mother's death. Another similarity is that Gussie's reason for telling her story to her granddaughter Tweedie is akin to the reason Ying-Ying decides she must tell her story to her daughter Lena: both are concerned about the choices being made by the daughter/granddaughter, choices that they see as too similar to their own past mistakes. Gussie ends her story to granddaughter with "And thus, Tweedie, while I cannot applaud your reliving my history, I am deeply happy to think that my genes are being handed on. Modified, broadened, no doubt improved upon."

The Demon Lover Rough Draft Tragedies tend to stick around our heads for a long time, in “The Demon Lover” by Elizabeth Bowen, she lets Mrs. Drover have the misery of her husband’s death haunt her subconscious mind. Also the other major theme is the effects of wartime on the human brain. Revenge in the short story is no bad deed goes unpunished. As well, the tale could be considered an allegory in which the soldier symbolizes "endless, inescapable violence," Many of the symbols, motifs, and the two characters in the short story support this theme also. Mrs. Drover was being unfaithful to her lover and he made her suffer the consequences of her action.

Family members, kids or the woman's husband could cause these ordeals. In this story, the sight of her husband and her son disgusted the woman. According to the Magill Online Literature Plus (MOLP), the story is being told in the form of an ironic fairy tall, which starts with "Once upon a time there was a wife and mother one to many times" is said to have introduced the tone and the theme of the story. It is sated in the MOLP database that the woman, who is suffering from depression, is described as a "cloistered queen"or a "young virgin in as tower. Another fairy tall aspect found in the story is the fact that she was locked up in the room by herself, which is similar to a young woman locked in the tallest tower waiting to be rescued.

This had severe emotional and psychological effects on the slaves, particularly Sethe. This is evident in her attachment to the spirit called Beloved. Slowly she is seen to become obsessed with pleasing this spirit as she loved Beloved like her own child that she lost years ago. The ghost acts just like a child, eventually throwing temper tantrums when it doesn’t get its way. As time continues, Sethe falls deeper and deeper into depression due to her captivity and the presence that was once her daughter.

She was the oldest daughter of Sethe but sadly was murdered by Sethe herself and this act was committed by Sethe because she believed she was protecting Beloved from slavery. She is the one who brings change in the lives of Sethe, Paul D, and Denver but also the community. She first haunts her mother as being an infant ghost in their home but once fled away by Paul D; she comes back in a form of a young woman who starts to live with them. She feels betrayed by her mother due to the fact that she was murdered so therefore she is demanding for her mother’s emotions. But at the end she disappears and becomes a painful past of African Americans.