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A 5 page essay that synthesizes two essays that take a psychological perspective on Toni Morrison's Beloved. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Morrison Beloved" both take a psychological approach to interpreting this complex novel. Examination of these essays shows that both authors feel that communication is essential to the recovery of the
characters to mental health, as Capuano focuses on Morrisons use of slave song as a means of expressing the trauma of physical and psychological abuse and Koolish focuses on communication
in general, but particularly in regards to both Sethe and her daughter Denver. Capuano points out that Morrisons use of song both defines and affirms the humanity of slaves
within a social context that constantly challenged and denied that humanity. Frequently, in Beloved, characters who are illiterate or who cannot bring themselves to speak of the brutality they experienced
as slaves, sing in order to affirm their existence and continued participation in life while also defending their status as human beings (Capuano 96). In this manner, Morrison drew upon
the tradition set by Frederick Douglasss 1845 Narrative, which, likewise, stressed the importance of slave song as a means for establishing the both the brutality of slavery and the humanity
of the individuals who endured its horrors (Capuano 96). For example, Sethe describes Paul D, who is a man who endured great physical and psychological pain, as a "singing man"
(Morrison 51). Throughout the novel, "cold statisticians," such as Schoolteacher, evaluate slaves according to "their animal tendencies" (Capuano 97). Paul D, for example, learns "the dollar value of his
weight, his strength, his heart, his brain, his penis and his future" (Morrison 262). He responds to this dehumanization through song. Morrison describes that slaves "sang it out and beat
it up, garbling the words so they could not be understood" (Morrison 128). Song, more than anything else, served to confirm their humanity, in the face of the "dehumanizing value
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