Slavey and identity reconstruction of female characters in Toni Morrison's beloved

Abstract

This dissertation, aims at showing the way slavery imposes a harsh system that pushes slave owners to treat their black slaves like beasts, and imposes on them rules that a human being cannot bear. Hence, slavery affected slaves psychologically, and forced them to believe that they had lost their identities under such treatments. In the novel, female characters are the most affected by this constitution. It made them fear about everything, especially Sethe. Her past experience traumatized her, it let on her psychological troubles.The novel itself represents the story of Sethe and her tragic life during slavery