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This 5 page paper discusses the names of the characters Beloved and Sethe in Toni Morrison's novel "Beloved," and argues that the characters are named as they are because of the way they behave. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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he was. J.R.R. Tolkien gave us evocative names as well: "Sauron" sounds sour, evil, ugly just as Galadriel sounds elegant, beautiful and otherworldly, and those characters are much like their
names. Toni Morrison has done the same thing in Beloved: give her characters names that give us a clue to their character. But she has also misled us, at least
in the character of Beloved, which makes us think about the message that character brings with her. This paper argues that Beloved takes that name as an ironic way to
remind her mother, and us, of what she has been through; it further argues that Sethe derives from the Egyptian god "Set," who is identified with the Evil One; it
also derives from the Biblical "Seth." Morrison has given her this name because of her actions. Further Discussion The novel derives much of its power from the indirect observation
of slavery. The Civil War has been over for ten years when the story opens, but its poisonous effects are still very much in evidence. We can understand how hideous
slavery is when we learn that Sethe killed her baby, and tried to kill her three other children, rather than having them returned to live as slaves; only the most
harrowing existence would lead a mother to that sort of desperate act. But still, no matter why she did it, and even if death is better than slavery, murdering her
little girl is still a despicable act. Thus, the woman who committed murder bears the name of Satan. Set, in Egyptian mythology, "murders his brother Osiris out of jealousy, is
banished to the desert, where he commits other acts of atrocity. He is identified with destruction, alienation and death" (Mayer 192). However, Seth is quite different: in the Old Testament,
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