Analysis on the Growth of Blacks in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

Abstract

Morrison’s novel Beloved takes readers to the period before and after the American Civil War, and leads readers to deeply experience the sufferings of American black slaves under slavery, especially the tragic fate of black female slaves, and the sufferings of liberated slaves from torture and struggling with the trauma caused by slavery after the Civil War, when slavery was abolished. This paper explores the growth of the main characters in the novel, and comes to a conclusion that only when the black people could bravely face the history and the reality, can they find their selves, retrieve self-esteem, and rebuild national self-confidence.