Beloved

Beloved, a novel written by Toni Morrison in 1987, is mainly about a girl named Sethe and how she escaped from slavery but is haunted by its heritage. In this novel, she must deal with this haunted life on every level, from the fires of the flesh to the heartbreaking challenges to the spirit. Morrison used numerous themes to show her views on modernism and two important themes she discusses is irony and flashbacks. (73) In this …

…irony of Sethe killing her children by having Paul D. contradict her on what she did was very wrong when Sethe though it was just out of love. Morrison also showed us the flashback Sethe had when she saw the Bodwin approach in a cart with his horses to pick up Denver. Morrison had used these two techniques in this novel very thoroughly in these two examples and throughout the whole entire book. (99) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**