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This 5 page paper analyzes the characters Sethe and Beloved, their motivations and psyche. The relationship between mother and daughter is highlighted. No additional sources cited.
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they would throw out the trash. Some might contend it is a response to legal abortion as the teenage girl believes that had she "gotten rid of it" in time,
the murder would not haunt her nor render her a felon. But in many of these cases, the crimes are not forgotten. The dead babies are discovered, someone had noticed
the obscured pregnancy months before or the mood swings, or something. The parents get into some trouble and while girls are often haunted by the remnants of aborted fetuses that
would have developed into living, breathing human beings, one can only imagine the guilt associated with actual murder of a helpless newborn. Perhaps this guilt, and the fear associated with
innocent youth, is exemplified in one of Toni Morrisons most compelling novels, Beloved. Set just after the civil war Sethe is a runaway slave who had once killed her infant
daughter so that she would not grow up in the vile institution. Although the guilt is paramount to the story, it is a ghost story above all. Is the baby
Sethe Suggs tried to forget really haunting her, or is her mind playing tricks? Does the baby come back in human form? Is she also reincarnated? From all appearances it
seems as if Beloved, the baby Sethe killed long ago, had come back in various forms, and with a vengeance. Although this seems to be true on the surface, one
must understand the context in which the baby was murdered and the state of mind of the victim. When small babies or toddlers are murdered, by virtue of their limited
experience and knowledge--for some even contend their minds are blank slates--they are not vengeful. They only know that they need to be cared for and when Sethe took this young
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