Part 1 of Essay
In the course of Beloved by Toni Morrison, Sethe undergoes a journey from a woman whose only identity is drawn from the fact that she is a mother, to the beginnings of identifying herself as a human being. To Sethe, the future was a matter of “keeping the past at bay.” She is a frustrated woman who finds no comfort in the ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... woman whose job it was.” The breast milk fed to Sethe as a baby was not even from her own mother. Sethe also had to deal with the fact that she was not brought along when her mother tried to escape (unsuccessfully) from the plantation. Sethe was breaking, but not yet broken. The emptiness of Sethe’s relationship with her mother only increased Sethe’s motherly obsession for her own children. As a parent with two kids and another one on the way, Sethe needed to escape slavery. She felt she had to place her child ....