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This 8 page paper examines the concept of motherhood as Toni Morrison describes it in “Beloved” and “Song of Solomon.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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echoes throughout most of her work. This paper considers the nature of motherhood as expressed by the main characters in Beloved and Song of Solomon. Discussion Beloved is a novel
in which reality, fantasy and memory are mixed and given almost equal weight. Its sometimes very difficult to tell what time period it is, and whats real and whats not.
In fact, its fair to say that the novel actually runs in two parallel time streams: the present in Cincinnati, and the past, 18 years earlier, when Sethe was a
slave on a farm in Kentucky. Slavery is an aspect of American life that most Americans would like to forget, and yet it still echoes today. No one who knows
anything about it can seriously make the argument that slavery was somehow beneficial to the slaves, or that they would not have known how to cope with freedom-both propositions have
been advanced by apologists for the "peculiar institution." At any rate, the extent to which slavery damages people-both the slaves and the slave holders, is apparent in these characters.
Sethe escapes from the wrongly-named Sweet Home Farm in Kentucky before the beginning of the Civil War (Morrison). Although her life was bearable at first, her "kindly" master died, and
a man known as "schoolteacher" took over; he embodied the worst traits of the slave owner (Morrison). He was vicious and cruel, and his sons raped Sethe, an act which
her husband witnessed and which drove him mad (Morrison). All six of the slaves on the farm tried to escape, but not all were successful. Sethe is heavily pregnant when
she runs, and gives birth to a daughter on the banks of the Ohio River-the boundary between the slave and free states. Shes helped by a white girl, Amy Denver,
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