Beloved, the very crude and rough movie based the novel by Toni Morrison, is about a woman named Sethe who attempted to kill her own children in order to secure their freedom from slavery. Sethe hits her two sons with a shovel on top of their head and cuts the throat of her baby with a saw like knife. The reality of the situation was Sethe had only momentarily knocked out her sons and only actually killed the new born baby while she was pregnant. As time progresses, the house in which Sethe and her only surviving daughter lives in haunted by her daughter that she killed. The plot gets more intense when Beloved comes back to life and undermines Sethe's emotional health and leads herself to a self-destrcution.
Toni Morrison is exploring the idea that self forgiveness can eradicate any mistake in your past. Sethe, wanting to do good, ends up doing a terrible mistake in order to guarantee freedom. This was a major issue that affected many African American after slavery. If this movie is analyzed with Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, the basic level of protection was threaten by the possibility of returning as a slave to Sweet Home. Her train of thought was hindered and as result her Locus of Control was lost. Sethe has to find a way to forgive herself about what she did and to forgive society for putting many African Americans through slavery. Now her daughter undergoes the traumatic experience of seeing her sister once thought to be dead to now being a parasite in Sethe's life. The relationship between Sethe and her daughter hits one of the themes of the power and fragility a daughter-mother relationship has.
P.S Would you ever consider Sethe actions as one you would make?
Jose.
Toni Morrison is exploring the idea that self forgiveness can eradicate any mistake in your past. Sethe, wanting to do good, ends up doing a terrible mistake in order to guarantee freedom. This was a major issue that affected many African American after slavery. If this movie is analyzed with Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, the basic level of protection was threaten by the possibility of returning as a slave to Sweet Home. Her train of thought was hindered and as result her Locus of Control was lost. Sethe has to find a way to forgive herself about what she did and to forgive society for putting many African Americans through slavery. Now her daughter undergoes the traumatic experience of seeing her sister once thought to be dead to now being a parasite in Sethe's life. The relationship between Sethe and her daughter hits one of the themes of the power and fragility a daughter-mother relationship has.
P.S Would you ever consider Sethe actions as one you would make?
Jose.
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