Topic > Slavery, Memory and Women in Toni Morrison's Beloved

Writing about any artist or author makes us more curious about the writer and their outlook on life. I believe that every writer reflects their own perspective in their writings even if they are not talking about themselves; this will appear to the reader one way or another. Therefore any attempt to read the noble Prize winner; Toni Morrison's profound views push us to see a side of her opinions, as she is an exceptional branch of the universal literary tree, more specifically in American literature. Beloved has become a must on the American reading list despite its complexity because of its effective subject matter and artistic representation. In 1873 slavery was abolished in Cincinnati, Ohio for ten years, this is the setting in which Morrison places the characters for her. Influential and moving novel. Morrison introduces Sethe (a black African American slave) as the novel's protagonist and the mother who killed her daughter to protect her from enslavement that could continue until her death. Here we have a big idea: what kind of mother would kill her child? For what? So we realize how much he suffered from slavery. Slavery has left a trace in Sethe's personality to a large extent, she is still a slave to her past, which she cannot free herself from and can be considered a perpetual slavery that will live as long as she is haunted by her past. She may have escaped slavery, but she is largely a slave to her own life. To be truly free she must accept all of herself: past, present and future. Morrison expresses a very strong feeling about slavery by describing the emotional impact slavery had on each individual in the novel. Since the author is African-American, she provided the image of blacks in America after the Civil War, although... in the middle of the paper... she expresses her experience as a slave who has no rights. to her body, and to her experience as a slave mother, accustomed to the violation of her own body, but who cannot tolerate the forced extraction of milk intended for her children, Sethe's own body with the scar of the cherry tree is written in text on many levels. When she has sex with Paul D, it's the first time she uses his body for her own pleasure. Denver's birth pain is written across her bleeding feet of which Amy says "it hurts to grow something new." Through her deep and complicated ideas to present slavery and the miseries of black women through memories and flashbacks, Toni Morrison has arguably created her masterpiece. Sethe alone as the heroine of the novel presets all the above ideas, she is a black African American slave who had suffered from being a woman as well as a slave.