FREE ESSAY ON BELOVED

BELOVED

BELOVED
The movie Beloved takes place just after the civil war, during slavery. The story takes
place in a rough-hewn house outside of Cincinnati. The house belongs to an ex-slave named
Sethe. She has gone from plantation life to owning this house. The house contains a lot
of memories.
Sethe has went through so much torment. She was raped by some men on her plantation and
her husband saw. Sethe's husband paid for the freedom of her and her children. Sethe gave
birth to a child and was helped by a white woman while on her way to the North. She
promised to name her child after her. That is how Denver got her name. She was jailed for
killing one of her children because she did not want the slave man to retrieve them. She
was stopped before she could kill the rest of her children. 
Leading to the climax of the movie is the arrival of a breath taking apparition. A
beautiful young women dressed in mourning is washed up on a river bank. This happens to
be Beloved. Throughout the movie, Beloved slowly reveals her earthbound side. Before she
was at the crossroads of the supernatural and the natural world. Beloved cunningly
suspends Sethe between past horrors and the potential of renewing those past horrors.
Oprah Winfrey, who plays Sethe, supplies a sense of the deep, stubborn essential to
Sethe's survival. 
Sethe's friend Paul D, an ex-slave, who has wondered alone for nearly two decades wanders
to Sethe's door looking for some place to alight. Sethe lets him stay because she too has
been alone for some years now. She enjoys his company. He did not get off at a good hand
with Denver because she was not use to sharing her mother. Denver did not have to share
her mother since she can remember because her brothers had left when she was still an
infant.
Paul D and her teen-age daughter Denver are both devastated by this dangerous person who
calls herself Beloved. Denver and Paul D had just reached a truce before Beloved had
came. Things got back to being hectic. But Denver Befriends Beloved and treats her as her
sister.
Beloved brought tension to the house. She wanted to be spoiled by sethe. Denver started
to feel rejected. Paul D is so uncomfortable with Beloved's presence that he stops
sleeping in the bed and starts sleeping in on a chair. Beloved has this force that she
uses. Anything that she wants she will do something in order to get it.
Beloved is the spirit of Sethe's child that she killed. Beloved did not think that was
fair. Beloved has come to get revenge, and she haunts and torments Sethe until she is
satisfied.