Summary and Analysis of Beloved: Based on the Book by Toni Morrison
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About Beloved by Toni Morrison:
A Nobel laureate and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison weaves a heartbreaking tale of legendary proportions. Set in post–Civil War Ohio, Beloved is the story of an escaped slave haunted by her past. Although Sethe is no longer enslaved, she is not yet free from her memories of the child and husband she buried, of the brutal violence on the plantation she fled, of life and of death, and of everything in between.
Beautiful, unflinching, and profound, Beloved is Morrison’s crowning achievement and is one of America’s greatest novels.
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Beloved
Based on the Book by Toni Morrison
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Contents
Context
Overview
Cast of Characters
Summary
Character Analysis
Themes and Symbols
Author’s Style
Direct Quotes and Analysis
Trivia
What’s That Word?
Critical Response
About Toni Morrison
For Your Information
Bibliography
Copyright
Context
Beloved, published in 1987, explores America’s dark history of slavery and its deeply fracturing impact on individuals and society today. The novel takes place during the early post–Civil War years until after the nullification of the Dred Scott decision by Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
Flashing back and forth between locations in a free state (Ohio) and a slave state (Kentucky), and shifting between the realities of the enslaved to their lives as freed blacks, the book addresses the struggles of ex-slaves in coming to terms with the indignities and incredible losses the inhumane system caused.
Toni Morrison first made a name for herself with her previous novels, The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Song of Solomon. She decided to write Beloved to show how painful the construct of racism is on the most vulnerable people in society. The novel went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1988, and was a key component in the decision to award the author the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997.
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