Conclusion
Beloved is less concerned with the standard of decency that influenced earlier writers. Morrison reveals the horror of slavery in explicit detail, elaborating upon the physical and mental abuses suffered by Sethe, Paul D, and the other Sweet Home slaves. Beloved not only speaks for the slaves whose voices were silenced, but also contributes to Morrison’s critique of the aesthetics that has dominated African-American culture and its canon of literature.
Beloved is a contemporary novel with the appeal of a ghost story, a mystery, and a work of historical fiction. It is a complex literary work that also seeks to understand the impact of slavery, both on the psychology of individuals and on the larger patterns of culture and history. Morrison was drawn to the historical account, and she employed the magical realism to brought up questions of what it meant to love and to be a mother in a place and time where life was often devalued. She used spectral to forced the characters to face the past and heal the pain. Beloved is not just a ghost story to tell for amusement; this is not a story to pass by; this is not a story to tell lightly because once you tell it things will never be the same. But this is also not a story that you will ever fully comprehend. Morrison takes her turn to denounce slavery and long for the freedom on behalf of all slaves.
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