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AP Literature
March 6, 2014
Insanity within Sanity Madness in Beloved by Toni Morrison is tied together by sides. Insanity and sanity are major roles that take place within Sethe's character and her madness that is resulting in infanticide. As A way to view Sethe's madness in Beloved is as her being a sane mother only wanting what is best for all of her children. From Sethe's point of view, “'thin love ain't love at all.'” (Morrison 194). Referring back to (when PAUL D said dont love too much) page number... ; or when Ella advised her to “'Don't love nothing.'” as you never know what might happen in the life of slave (108). Sethe strongly feels as a mother is it her job to love, care, and keep her children safe. With little time to act, she didn't weigh out her options. She knew they were coming for her and her children to take back to the plantation she had risked not only her life, but her infants life, escaping from. Stamp Paid's point of view agrees that Sethe was sane, describing Sethe's act of killing the baby as not too cruel, “'She ain't crazy. She love those children. She was trying to out-hurt the hurter.'” meaning she was trying to save her children from suffering the life of slavery (276). Stamp plants a seed in the readers mind to make them think, whose to judge if Sethe's outrage was reasonable or not. What Sethe consideres right may not be the best choice for everyone else, although, her choice is her choice alone, and her first instinct was the safety of her children: which all goes back to whose to judge what is right to begin with? Not only was Sethe doing what she felt was right for the safety of her children, her actions were made out of love. “Look like I loved em more after I got here”, was a powerful line that showed the sanity of Sethe when attempting to murder all of her children (190). Back at the plantation, Sethe's children were hers: biologically, but literally the slave owner had owned them. Now that they have escaped the
March 6, 2014
Insanity within Sanity Madness in Beloved by Toni Morrison is tied together by sides. Insanity and sanity are major roles that take place within Sethe's character and her madness that is resulting in infanticide. As A way to view Sethe's madness in Beloved is as her being a sane mother only wanting what is best for all of her children. From Sethe's point of view, “'thin love ain't love at all.'” (Morrison 194). Referring back to (when PAUL D said dont love too much) page number... ; or when Ella advised her to “'Don't love nothing.'” as you never know what might happen in the life of slave (108). Sethe strongly feels as a mother is it her job to love, care, and keep her children safe. With little time to act, she didn't weigh out her options. She knew they were coming for her and her children to take back to the plantation she had risked not only her life, but her infants life, escaping from. Stamp Paid's point of view agrees that Sethe was sane, describing Sethe's act of killing the baby as not too cruel, “'She ain't crazy. She love those children. She was trying to out-hurt the hurter.'” meaning she was trying to save her children from suffering the life of slavery (276). Stamp plants a seed in the readers mind to make them think, whose to judge if Sethe's outrage was reasonable or not. What Sethe consideres right may not be the best choice for everyone else, although, her choice is her choice alone, and her first instinct was the safety of her children: which all goes back to whose to judge what is right to begin with? Not only was Sethe doing what she felt was right for the safety of her children, her actions were made out of love. “Look like I loved em more after I got here”, was a powerful line that showed the sanity of Sethe when attempting to murder all of her children (190). Back at the plantation, Sethe's children were hers: biologically, but literally the slave owner had owned them. Now that they have escaped the