Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Circularity In Beloved
In the short reading about "Circularity in Beloved" by Philip Page. Philip Page is scholar of English literature at Indiana State University, he describes Toni Morrison's books to be never ending circles. Page describes "Beloved" as a never ending circle, through different aspects of the book, and uses different quotes and other books to support his reasoning.
When talking about this idea of circles in the text, Page goes on to say "circles and circle metaphors dominate the novel", and he also goes on to say "this one is repetition which is a form of circularity". I agree with what Page has to say, I agree with is how everything is a circle in Beloved. The first reason why I agree is because of the fact that in the book everything does happen to come up again. Page uses family, and the past to convey to us that everything is a circle. By using family, Page goes on to say that Sethe and Baby Suggs are very relative in the fact that they both lost their family and both are yearning for them back. Both lost their family, but first it was Baby Suggs that lost her family and then as time went on the same thing happened for Sethe. Same for the past Page states that "Sethe and Paul D are prisoners of their past especially Sethe", I have written a lot about how the past may affect through Sethe and Paul D, and through writing about them I never noticed how their life is a circle but because of their past. Their past has a huge impact on this idea of circularity because the past for them always seems to come up, whether it is a tree, Beloved or a memory that may pass by.
Page goes on to say that circularity in Beloved is not always positive or negative but it is a blend of both positive and negative. Circularity is also looked at as a metaphor for life. One is birthed then they grow up and live their life and then they die. At the end of the book we see this because when we see Beloved actually die. At first Beloved was a dead baby, who came back to be a spirit, but as time went on in the book she grew to be a better women than Sethe was. But then it all comes around in the circle and she dies.
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