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beginning, as we see the characters in a somewhat present condition, a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see tha...

girl before she is stopped. It is this sin -- the sin of Cain, to murder ones own flesh and blood -- that traps Sethe both in tim...

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

they were dead, rather than face a fate similar to hers. She is successful in killing only one, her infant Beloved. "Sethes murder...

In six pages the enslavement of African American females as depicted in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Toni Mo...

play in the narrative, it is helpful to have an understanding of the overall plot and its major components. Plot Synopsis Altho...

In 8 pages this paper examines the thematic significance of motherhood and the symbolism of breastfeeding in the 1987 novel Belove...

In 7 pages this paper examines how the past is reinterpreted through the lack of conflict resolution in the texts In Country by Bo...

In 8 pages the erogenous and nursing significance of breasts and the freedom and oppression they represent to Sethe are the focus ...

In six pages the concept of freedom through death as a release from life's hardships is examined through such works as William Fau...

In 5 pages sex as an instrument of power rather than an expression of intimacy is considered in this analysis of Beloved by Toni M...

This 6 page paper compares and contrasts the themes and characters in two of Toni Morrison's novels, Beloved and The Bluest Eye. T...

This 8 page paper considers Sethe's sense of what it means to be a mother in Toni Morrison's novel Beloved. The writer argues that...

This 7 page paper argues that Toni Morrison's use of vacant facial expressions in her novel Beloved can be understood with referen...

In six pages this paper examines the ties to the South northern based characters have in The Bluest Eye, Jazz, and Beloved by Toni...

In four pages this paper examines how personality is affected by freedom in this analysis of Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' and Margare...

(Morrison 51). Throughout the novel, "cold statisticians," such as Schoolteacher, evaluate slaves according to "their animal ten...

a sense of innocence. "I had begun to worry about my speech again. How would it go? Would they recognize my ability? What would th...

also alienates Sethes daughter Denver, who hates him because Beloved is interested in him; Denver wants to keep Beloved to herself...

at first, her "kindly" master died, and a man known as "schoolteacher" took over; he embodied the worst traits of the slave owner ...

treated like a horse, complete with a bit in his mouth. Sethe managed to escape. In fact, because she was very pregnant and had b...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

these women to seek relief in laudanum." Laudanum was a drug and apparently many plantation mistresses were living in incredibly o...

that, in truth, Morrison never reveals the race of the two characters although most people will assume that one is black and the o...

as we can see from works such as Toni Morrisons Beloved, slavery was a moral and psychological evil whose effects were felt -- and...

This 6 page paper discusses the concept of the separation between the Self and Other, as realized by Toni Morrison in her novel Su...

This 4 page paper describes Toni Morrison's use of imagery and metaphor in her novel Tar Baby....

This 5 page paper analyzes Toni Morrison's novel Sula. Primary source only....

This 5 page paper discusses the central theme of Toni Cade Bambara's story The Lesson #2....