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In Toni Morrisons novel, Beloved, the main character Sethe, is a former slave
who chooses to kill her baby girl rather than allowing her to be exposed to the
physically, and emotionally damaging horrors of a life spent in slavery. There is
no other way to say it: she murdered her child. By killing her child, so dear to her
heart, the question arises whether Sethe acted out of true love or selfishness.
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.... describes her
reaction to School Teacher's arrival: "Oh, no. I wasn't going back there[Sweet
Home]. I went to jail instead"~(Morrison 42) Sethe's words suggest that she has
made a moral stand by her refusal to allow herself and her children to be dragged
back into the evil of slavery. From the beginning, it is clear that Sethe believes
that her actions were morally justified. The peculiarity of her statement lies in her
omission of the horrif ....
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