![]() ![]() He is powerless against Beloved, who seduces him as a way of controlling him and dividing him from her mother. He shows up at 124 and tries to make a life with Sethe. He has also suffered horribly, and has reacted by shutting away any deep feelings. ![]() She represents the power of the past to intrude into the present. She is the embodiment not only of the baby's ghost but also the legacy of slavery. ![]() Belovedīeloved is the ghost of Sethe's third child, murdered to protect her from schoolteacher. She has a mass of scars on her back that resemble a tree. Sethe has a troubled relationship with her own past, often not willing to speak about it but obsessively reliving it in her own head. When schoolteacher, the brutal master at Sweet Home, tracked her down, Sethe attempted to kill her children rather than see them returned to slavery. ![]() She had four children, pregnant with the fourth when she fled Sweet Home on foot and alone. As a young teenager she was brought to Sweet Home, where she took a man named Halle Suggs for her husband. Born on a distant plantation that she barely remembers, Sethe is the child of an African-born slave woman whose name she never knew. ![]()
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