{"id":211,"date":"2019-10-07T12:34:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T16:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/?p=211"},"modified":"2019-10-07T12:34:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T16:34:14","slug":"you-are-beloved-and-you-are-beloved-and-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/2019\/10\/07\/you-are-beloved-and-you-are-beloved-and-you\/","title":{"rendered":"You are Beloved, and You are Beloved, and You…"},"content":{"rendered":"

As much as I would love to focus on everything that occurs in the remainder of <\/span>Beloved<\/span><\/i>, I will particularly focus on pages 248 to 257 because of its dense poetic prose, (maybe because I haven’t finished the reading but don\u2019t worry, Dr. Bezio, I will by tomorrow). Morrison\u2019s syntax changes drastically on page 254 when each sentence is shortened and appears to be a poem of sorts. Poetry is a way to convey things that would be difficult to convey otherwise and what Morrison is possibly conveying is quite interesting. To start, we don\u2019t explicitly know who is speaking, but we can infer that the first part on page 254 is mostly Beloved speaking, the second part on page 255 is mostly Denver, and the third part on pages 255 to 256 is mostly Sethe speaking. I use the word mostly because although the context and word choice allows us to assume these parts fit a specific character, there appears to be a mixture of all three mentioned characters within each portion of the \u201cpoem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Of the many things I could point out within these pages, the preoccupation with faces is something that particularly stands out. If we follow my presumed speakers between pages 245 and 256, then Beloved \u201cloves\u201d Sethe\u2019s face, Denver \u201cneeds\u201d Beloved\u2019s face, and Sethe \u201cis\u201d Beloved\u2019s face. So if Beloved loves Sethe and Sethe is Beloved, then Sethe loves herself. There are a variety of other reasons within this portion of the book that leads us to acknowledge the mixture of all three characters, but what does this tell us?<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, this book, then, seems to be a reclamation of the self. Sethe has felt alienated and at blame based on her skin color and her actions. Furthermore, Sethe has been represented as lacking emotion since most of our earlier accounts of her have been through other people\u2019s perspectives. What Morrison might be trying to say here is that people must reclaim themselves. No one can be owned by anybody and a true account of history must be through the eyes of someone who lived it (which is missing in many forms of education). We also need many perspectives to get a full story. Sethe by herself is only a part of the story, as is Beloved and Denver. But together, we have a much better understanding of the context in which they lived. Finally, we all must accept ourselves for who we are. We are all multifaceted and dearly loved (or at least should be), which is the meaning of \u201cBeloved.\u201d Despite the horrors of the past and our previous actions, all have the opportunity to forgive.<\/span><\/p>\n

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