However, all Sethe could think about is getting her milk to Beloved. ... Then when Beloved shows up at 124 in the flesh, Sethe couldn't have been happier. ... However, it wasn't just Beloved showing up on her stump that broke Sethe, but it was Beloved showing up and then leaving Sethe again. ... Sethe cared for all her children and the absence of Beloved devastated her. Was it right or wrong for Sethe to murder her daughter Beloved to remain at 124? ...

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In Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, the same issue has occurred. ... The appearance of Beloved has a positive effect on Sethe unlike Paul D. ... Beloved was the one who came to her and wanted her unlike her neighbors. ... Beloved acted as a tantrum child and Sethe pleased Beloved so she could be happy. ... After Beloved's arrival and healing Sethe, Denver notices the craziness that got into her mother when Beloved takes control over her. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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In Toni Morrison's Beloved, each generation hopes to find a better home despite a malignant world: Sethe's mother traveled from the slave ship to the plantation, Sethe from the plantation to Cincinnati, Beloved from Cincinnati to death, and Denver from a strange, haunted land of ghosts and despair to her community at large. ... " Each of the three understandings of what a home might be, as developed in Beloved – the Sweet Home plantation, the Clearing and 124 Bluestone Cincinnati – fails because it prevents the dynamic interaction of all the elements of life:...

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Beloved represents the tragedy symbol of the effects of slavery. ... Beloved brings forth Sethe's true identity. ... Beloved helps reveal her eighteen year old emotional isolation. Sethe's daughter Denver is the most dynamic character in Beloved. ... Beloved provided emotional nourishment in a way Sethe never could. ...

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Beloved does come back to pass judgment on Sethe. ... Beloved forces Sethe to remember her own mother because, in fact, the dead daughter and the slave mother are the combination of an identity the ghost child Beloved represents. ... Sethe gives Beloved story after story of her love and devotion to her. ... Beloved gets rid of Paul D. and eventually excludes Denver from their play. ... The idea of Beloved's physical presence enrages Ella for she understands that Beloved represents the invasion of one world by the other, and specifically, "the ideas of past errors taking possessi...

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The manner in which the past is brought out in Beloved Toni Morison's Beloved is a narrative-cum-description of a family's hardships and individual personal struggles during the mid-1800, a time when slavery was rampant in the United States of America. Beloved is the story of Sethe, a former slave, who has been living with her eighteen-year-old daughter Denver. ... Beloved recalls dark, hot, cramped quarters, a pile of dead bodies, and water. ... The songs in Beloved are very crucial to the plot of the novel. Beloved's recollection of the song that Sethe used to sing to her c...

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• Grade Level: High School

Beloved The book I read was Beloved, by Toni Morrison. ... I found information on the author of Beloved, on the internet. ... In Beloved, Toni Morrison portrays the barbarity and cruelty the slaves were subjected to. ... Sethe cut the throat of who is now known as (beloved) and her two sons Buglar and Howard. ... There is a quote that I think symbolizes the love between Sethe and beloved, "Beloved could not keep her eyes off of Sethe." ...

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Beloved Toni Morrison's, Beloved, is a complex narrative about the love between mothers and daughters, and the agony of guilt. " It is the ultimate gesture of a loving mother. ... Did Beloved's death come out of love or selfish pride? ... Beloved was Sethe. ... Sethe was the dearly beloved, and thus Beloved was named after Sethe. ... And Beloved became the embodiment of Sethe. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Beloved The setting, time, and main characters of the film Beloved all point to struggling aspects of African Americans and African American women in particular. ... A man who befriends her takes Beloved off somewhere to hide her. ... Beloved has left some unanswered questions, but maybe for a reason. ... Eventually the lack of food makes Sethe ill and Beloved only adds to the problem. ... Beloved herself, through me for a loop. ...

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By the aforementioned standards, Toni Morrison's Beloved has undeniably earned its place in contemporary literature. ... Beloved was written. ... Much of Beloved is told from the perspective of freed slaves. ... Beloved exemplifies the anguish and fright of the slaves before and after freedom. ... Having met all requirements, vague and specific, Toni Morrison's Beloved is unmistakably a work of literature. ...

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Morrison's Beloved: The Psychological Suffrage of Former Slaves Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) was her fifth novel, and consequently the most controversial work she had ever written. ... Stanley Crouch stated " For Beloved, above all else, is a blackface holocaust novel" (38-43). ... I believe that Beloved was a vividly irregular family saga that is set in the mid-1880's in Ohio. ... Overall, I believe that Toni Morrison's Beloved is one of the most thrilling novels that I have read. ... Beloved. ...

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This is when Toni Morrison's famous, well-written novel, Beloved was taken place. ... The physical appearance of Beloved makes Sethe a slave to her guilt. When Sethe went to the carnival, which was her first social outgoing in eighteen years, Beloved shows up. ... A life," when they are at the carnival, but Beloved stopped that from happening by pushing Paul D away from Sethe, physically. Sethe is subtly tormented by Beloved's presence and her persistent questions that have a tendency to dig up more unwanted memories. ...

• Word Count: 435
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Beloved Can a mother's love be so strong that she could kill her own children to save them from being harmed by others? This is the question that is being asked throughout Toni Morrison's Novel Beloved. ... I believe that Sethe had taken away beloved's life prematurely and that she like many other slaves could have become someone important in life. ... The town people, Paul D. and most importantly her own children including Beloved do not justify what she has done. ... If beloved believed what sethe had done what was right for her then why would she haunt the house her ...

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The passage within these two pages is talking about Beloved. ... Before Beloved's reincarnation, the spirit of Beloved was haunting 124, the house in which Sethe lived in. When the spirit suddenly disappeared, it came back as Beloved. ... Beloved made both of them feel inferior to her. ... The story of Beloved is forgotten. ...

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Motherhood & Beloved Out of all the different themes explored by Morrison in Beloved, motherhood shows the most omnipresence. ... People must ask themselves, "How can Sethe love her children so much when she try's to kill them and succeeds with Beloved-? ... This is presented in this quote by Beloved,"" In the beginning I could see her I could not help her because the noisy clouds were in the way -(201). ... Denver cried when Beloved disappeared in the cold house. However, Denver was not crying because Beloved disappeared, per se. ...

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It is in this manner that Toni Morrison uses numbers in Beloved. ... There are thirty women that arrive to remove Beloved. ... After four months of "*censored*ing" Beloved, Paul D goes back upstairs to Sethe, and as those two are on the second floor, Beloved thinks about the two dreams she has. ... Eventually, Beloved replaces him. ... Sethe "heard three notes" from the song that Beloved hums. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Morrison's novels, Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon and Tar Baby, reveal a unity and a consistency in her vision of the human condition. ... (Thus Sethe is destroyed by her memories and her isolation with the ghost of Beloved (haunted by slavery), until the community intervenes and saves her.) ...

• Word Count: 290
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Beloved is clearly the baby ghost back from the dead. ... Last time he came Sethe killed her daughter, Beloved, to keep Beloved safe. ... Standing alone on the porch, Beloved is smiling. ... Sethe tries to protect Beloved and Beloved understands. ... It is clear, now that the sequence of events has changed Beloved and Sethe are at peace and Beloved is gone. ...

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The Living Spirit One of the most engaging arguments about Toni Morrison's book Beloved is centered on the nature of the girl Beloved. ... Beloved. ... girl's funeral was "Dearly Beloved". ... The ghost could have heard the words "Dearly Beloved" at the funeral and assumed that Beloved meant her. ... Beloved also has a scar on her neck. ...

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beloved "It is the ultimate gesture of a loving mother. ... By killing her "Beloved" child, has Sethe acted out of true love or selfish pride? ... Throughout Beloved, Sethe's character consistently displays the duplistic nature of her actions. ... However, Sethe's love for her children does not preclude her responsibility for Beloved's death. ... The black community played a major role in Beloved, especially with th...

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She is drawn to Beloved but is also fiercely loyal to her mother whom Beloved is steadily devouring. Denver is divided between the love she have for her mother and the need for love she seeks from Beloved. ... Beloved's appearance offers Denver another source of attention and love. ... So she seeks to fill the void with love from Beloved who cares about no one but Sethe. ... In the clearing as Beloved begins to strangle Sethe, Denver runs to help her mother and later accuses Beloved of hurting her. ...

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In the novel Beloved, written by Toni Morrison and in "Looking for Zora" by Alice Walker, both of the communities in the stories had many similarities. ... She is only successful in killing her youngest daughter, Beloved. Throughout the story, Sethe is shown dealing with the ghost of Beloved haunting her, and making her sick with stress. Beloved drives Paul D. out of her home, and tries to make her mother suffer, just as she had. ...

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After viewing Jonathan Demme's film Beloved, I felt as I usually do upon watching a movie based on a novel, disappointed. ... This paper will attempt to exploit these limitations and explain why Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, is superior to its film version. A major flaw of the film Beloved is that it did not hint at many of the underlying themes that are ever present in the novel. ... Jonathan Demme's film version of Beloved fails in comparison to Toni Morrison's novel due to its limitations as a medium. ... For these reasons, Morrison's Beloved is superior t...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, it is not until Beloved, her Nobel-prize winning novel about slavery, that Morrison truly examines the relationship of the community and redemption. ... Morrison opens Beloved with two very powerful statements. ... Beloved is a story about slavery, certainly. ... Directly on the following page is an excerpt from the bible, Romans 9:25: "I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved." ...

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• Grade Level: High School