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Beloved: Sethe And Her Daughter
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“It is the ultimate gesture of a loving mother. It is the outrageous claim
In the story “Beloved” by Toni Morrison there is the story of Sethe
and her daughter ‘Beloved.’ Sethe is a proud and beautiful woman who
escaped from slavery, yet is haunted by .... Middle of Essay
.... or not
Sethe acted out of true love or selfish pride? The fact that Sethe's act is
irrational can easily be decided upon. Does Sethe kill her baby girl
because she wants to save the baby from slavery or does Sethe end her
daughter's life because of a selfish refusal to reenter a life of slavery?
It can be said that she is a woman who chooses to love her children
and not herself. Sethe kills her baby because her children are the only
good and pure part of who she is and must be protected from the cruelty and
the "dirtiness" of slavery(Morrison 251). In this respect, her act is that
of love for her children. The selfishness of Sethe's act lies i ....
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