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Beloved explores the physical, emotional, and spiritual devastation wrought by slavery, a devastation that continues to haunt those characters who are former slaves even in freedom. ... Denver conflates her identity with Beloveds, and Beloved feels herself actually beginning to physically disintegrate. ... " The insidious effects of the institution affect not only the identities of its black victims but those of the whites who perpetrate it and the collective identity of Americans. ... For this reason, Morrison suggests that our nations identity, like the novels characters, must be healed. ... Crucially, in Beloved, we learn about the history and legacy of slavery not from schoolteachers or even from the Bodwins point of view but rather from Sethes, Paul Ds, Stamp Paids, and Baby Suggss. Morrison writes history with the voices of a people historically denied the power of language, and Beloved recuperates a history that had been lost—either due to willed forgetfulness (as in Sethes repression of her memories) or to forced silence (as in the case of Paul Ds iron bit).
Approximate Word count = 603
Approximate Pages = 2.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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