Beloved
Good Books rating 4.5
Technical:
- ID: 41
- Added: 2025-08-15
- Updated: 2025-09-03
- ISBN: 9780099540977
- Publisher: Random House
- Published: 2010-01-01
- Reviews: 5
Reviews
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- Beloved offers a harrowing look at slavery and its lasting impact.
- Sethe is a passionately devoted mother, who flees with her children from an abusive owner.
- Sethe is obsessed with assuaging her guilt and tries to placate the increasingly demanding and manipulative Beloved.
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- Toni Morrison's third novel, 'Beloved', based on a true story about an enslaved woman named 'Sethe', is a literary masterpiece.
- A tale of brutality, horror and, above all, love at any cost.
- 'Beloved' is Morrison's enduring masterpiece and best-known work.
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- Morrison chose to even use a ghost in the first place.
- The ghost of Beloved is a facilitator in this novel; it facilitates Sethe and Paul D's painful memories of the awful enslavement they both suffered.
- The fire of a mother's love can never be extinguished, that some moral dilemmas can never be solved, and that emancipation from slavery is not the same thing as true emotional freedom.
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- Beloved, it shows us how Slavery is the metaphorical ghost that haunts you.
- Slavery leaves physical, emotional, mental and spiritual scars.
- The novel highlights the ongoing impact of slavery beyond freedom.
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- This spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.
- There is also an extremely sensual aspect to Morrison's writing where the various senses blend together.
- At the end of the novel however, Denver finds a way to banish Beloved definitively by rallying the community of women in a beautiful scene.