Word: belovedness
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In desperation, Sethe tries to kill all of her children, but only succeeds in the killing her first daughter, Beloved.
However, Beloved is really about women, and it's on this level that the novel affects me.
From my perspective this means taking a look at Beloved without the backdrop of the feminist and traditionalist movements. The focus is shifted on how I, as a woman, love--how I connect, how I feel, how I value myself, how I see the world.
Keeping the example of Beloved in mind I acnowledge the danger in my choice. In dealing with women in the novel, Toni Morrison chronicles the destructive possibilities of love and its ability to kill.
Beloved tells the story of a woman named Sethe. After escaping slavery, she and her children, threatened with the possibility of returning to Sweet Home, their plantation--back within the reach of the schoolteacher, their manipulative master.