... have live a life of freedom tainted brutal experience of having no self. Toni Morrison's Beloved depicts the lives of former slaves who are trying to live within the restraints of a traumatizing past. It is Morrison's use of parallel characters which emphasizes the degree to which slavery penetrated the ... took control of the plantation. His method of running the farm matched the landscape of brutality which existed just outside the Sweet Home fences. Slaves were not men, they were objects, possessions, machines of labor. Schoolteacher destroyed their identity, reduced them to animals...

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• Grade Level: High School