Word: belovedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In desperation, Sethe tries to kill all of her children, but only succeeds in the killing her first daughter, Beloved.
Beloved comes back, though--her hunger for her mother's lover brings her back from the other side. Angry, Beloved returns to consume her mother, and Sethe's wrenching guilt allows her to do so.
I'm not saying that I am going to the rush out and kill my children. I'm not saying that anyone who devotes herself to her family will necessarily be consumed by it. No. But Beloved makes me realize that in devoting my life to my family I could...
Beloved is about loving too thickly. It is about mother-love, women in love. It shows that a woman's need to connect, to protect, to give, and to sacrifice are all good. But it also shows that they can destroy.
As a woman with traditional values being confronted for the first time with intellectual challenges and alternative points of view, I've had lots to reconsider and re-examine. Literature has always played a pivotal role in defining my priorities and ideals. Beloved has been a lightpost within this confusion...