An Analysis Of The Character Beloved In Toni Morrison's Novel Beloved

Toni Morrison is one of the greatest figures in the field of contemporary American literature. She was conferred the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature, which makes her the first black writer and the second American woman writer to enjoy the honor. Her fifth novel, Beloved, is her representative work. When it was first published in 1987, it created a sensation in the American literary world and has since been regarded as a milestone in American literary history.Set in the reconstruction era in 1873, Beloved tells of a long and silent, but brutal and bloody period in black history in which the black voice was unceasingly suppressed by the slavery. The author of the present thesis believes that the creation of the character Beloved through the artistic technique of magic realism in Beloved plays an extremely important role in conveying the themes. A reality marked by its elusiveness and mysteriousness is created mainly by the title character Beloved, who is the clue connecting all the other characters in the novel. By the story of the character Beloved, Morrison reveals the importance of rememory and the community of the blacks, as well as the psychological traumas and disorders left to the blacks by slavery, which prevent them from achieving their identity as a free man and enjoying their new life. Morrison makes it clear that to achieve the ultimate unity of their physical and spiritual freedom, they should turn to their spiritual homeland and find a way to adapt their legacy to the New World.