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Beloved toni morrison cover7/2/2023 Initially, her act may appear as something unforgivable, but Sethe’s unending regret about taking her daughter’s life suggests that the lesson taught by Beloved’s selfish behavior was learned. Slaveholders also abused others in the story, but only Sethe wanted to protect her children’s future from slavery, so that she attempted to kill them. All aspects of this story, starting from the plot structure to individual objects, contribute to unraveling the main character’s deep psychological issues that resulted from enslavement and her fierce resistance to it. The genre used in this novel is called magical realism, which is the writing style that contains mystical elements to explore a real-life conflict (Ngom 197). It is illustrated through the story of a black woman haunted by her daughter’s ghost that she murdered to save her from servantry’s fate. Beloved by Toni Morrison is an allegory of emotional and physical trauma caused by slavery.
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