English 210
Beloved
Lecture 1:
Epigraph:
- Bible verse shaped into form of poem
- Impact of line breaks: emphasis & show parallels between couplets
- Verse refers to fact of being object of love & act of calling someone object of love
Dedication:
- “Sixty Million & more”
- Reference to trans-Atlantic slave trade
- “and more”: refers to those suffered through slavery & not necessarily died; lost agency of life
- Connotations with: genocide (Holocaust), refers to 6 million x 10
- Slavery is much less memorialized event than Holocaust
- Comparing atrocities seems fruitless exercise: implication is to associate this historical event
with something familiar
- Time when industrialization was prominent in Europe: driven by slave trade
- Morrison is critical of fact that there is no sense of remembrance of atrocities of slave trade:
intention of book is to commemorate millions of lives lost due to slavery
Lecture 2:
- Historical association between WW2 & modernism
First page analysis:
- Absence of men in house: only women & children
- Omniscient narrator: narrator has more knowledge about characters than themselves
- House given emotions: described as lively & spiteful
- Lyrical in nature
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, Time period:
- 1873 (@ present)
- End of American civil war: fought between northern & southern states
- Significance: war over status of slavery
Place:
- Address of house = 124 Bluestone Road, Cincinatti, Ohio
- Significance of setting: Ohio is free state (slavery was illegal)
- Cincinatti= place where slaves could escape
- Border of Ohio & slave states (Kentucky & West Virginia): formed by Ohio river
Characters:
- Grandmother: Baby Suggs
- Mother: Sethe
- Children: Howard, Buglar, Denver
Forward:
- Novel based on escape story of Margaret Garner
- Morrison approaches vast scale of slavery: she wanted character that captured complexities of
freedom of black women
Lecture 3:
Form of novel:
Part 1: sentences of varying lengths, lyrical in nature, well punctuated, omniscient narrative voice
Part 3: uncorrelated fragments of sentences, spaced widely apart, punctuation is disregarded, few lines
have been indented
- “I am Beloved and she is mine”: confusion- Beloved confuses herself as Sethe & also sees
Sethe as her own
- “I see her take flowers away from leaves”: picking flowers & cotton refers to activity of former
generation of slaves
- “she puts them in a round basket”: refers to basket where Sethe put her children while working
- “All of it is now it is always now”: reflects sense of timelessness – only now exists, boundaries
of past, present, future are blurred & focus on suffering is outside of time
- Punctuation breaks up into units of time: lack of punctuation fails to show how each sentence
relates to one another, in terms of time
[Type here]
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(SUMMARIES MADE USING ENG 210 LECTURES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA: INTELLECTUAL
CREDIT IS DUE TO THE LECTURERS OF THIS MODULE.)
Beloved
Lecture 1:
Epigraph:
- Bible verse shaped into form of poem
- Impact of line breaks: emphasis & show parallels between couplets
- Verse refers to fact of being object of love & act of calling someone object of love
Dedication:
- “Sixty Million & more”
- Reference to trans-Atlantic slave trade
- “and more”: refers to those suffered through slavery & not necessarily died; lost agency of life
- Connotations with: genocide (Holocaust), refers to 6 million x 10
- Slavery is much less memorialized event than Holocaust
- Comparing atrocities seems fruitless exercise: implication is to associate this historical event
with something familiar
- Time when industrialization was prominent in Europe: driven by slave trade
- Morrison is critical of fact that there is no sense of remembrance of atrocities of slave trade:
intention of book is to commemorate millions of lives lost due to slavery
Lecture 2:
- Historical association between WW2 & modernism
First page analysis:
- Absence of men in house: only women & children
- Omniscient narrator: narrator has more knowledge about characters than themselves
- House given emotions: described as lively & spiteful
- Lyrical in nature
[Type here]
THIS IS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF JENNA ROSE LOPES- DO NOT ILLEGALLY DISTRIBUTE.
(SUMMARIES MADE USING ENG 210 LECTURES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA: INTELLECTUAL
CREDIT IS DUE TO THE LECTURERS OF THIS MODULE.)
, Time period:
- 1873 (@ present)
- End of American civil war: fought between northern & southern states
- Significance: war over status of slavery
Place:
- Address of house = 124 Bluestone Road, Cincinatti, Ohio
- Significance of setting: Ohio is free state (slavery was illegal)
- Cincinatti= place where slaves could escape
- Border of Ohio & slave states (Kentucky & West Virginia): formed by Ohio river
Characters:
- Grandmother: Baby Suggs
- Mother: Sethe
- Children: Howard, Buglar, Denver
Forward:
- Novel based on escape story of Margaret Garner
- Morrison approaches vast scale of slavery: she wanted character that captured complexities of
freedom of black women
Lecture 3:
Form of novel:
Part 1: sentences of varying lengths, lyrical in nature, well punctuated, omniscient narrative voice
Part 3: uncorrelated fragments of sentences, spaced widely apart, punctuation is disregarded, few lines
have been indented
- “I am Beloved and she is mine”: confusion- Beloved confuses herself as Sethe & also sees
Sethe as her own
- “I see her take flowers away from leaves”: picking flowers & cotton refers to activity of former
generation of slaves
- “she puts them in a round basket”: refers to basket where Sethe put her children while working
- “All of it is now it is always now”: reflects sense of timelessness – only now exists, boundaries
of past, present, future are blurred & focus on suffering is outside of time
- Punctuation breaks up into units of time: lack of punctuation fails to show how each sentence
relates to one another, in terms of time
[Type here]
THIS IS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF JENNA ROSE LOPES- DO NOT ILLEGALLY DISTRIBUTE.
(SUMMARIES MADE USING ENG 210 LECTURES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA: INTELLECTUAL
CREDIT IS DUE TO THE LECTURERS OF THIS MODULE.)
