Belove Analysis
Beginning of paper
Beloved. Who or what is Beloved? Many people think that Beloved is the Devil or a
savior. Others just take her at face value as Sethe's dead child come back to haunt her. I
believe that all of these ideas come close to her identity, but they are still not completely
right. This is not a story about ....
Middle of paper
.... In this way she brands her detached
conscience with guilt.
I call it her "detached conscience" because in order to go on with life, Sethe
needed to remove herself from her guilt. She removes herself so completely that her
neighbors, already upset at her crime, isolated her because she seemed to feel no remorse
for the awful deed. Sethe's stoic resolve continues until Denver loses her hearing, which
was caused by Denver not being able to deal with hearing what her mother had done.
Only when he ....
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Word count: 1610
Page count: 6 (approximately 250 words per page)
