In Beloved by Toni Morrison, the mother makes a very crucial decision in the lives of her children. The mother in this story, Sethe, concludes that it would be better for her children to be dead then for her children to have to suffer because of slavery, like she is. Sethe, as well as all the other women slaves, was raped multiple times and was forced into arduous labor. She would not be able to witness her own daughter, Beloved; go through what she had to go through and therefore murdered her. She also tried to murder her two sons and other daughter, but they were all saved. This was for the best becaus

After this murder takes place, Sethe is shunned from the community for eighteen years. She is shunned, not only for the murder of her child, but also for the way she held her head up as if she did such a great act. Due to this, one?s first glance may be to see Sethe as a women without a heart, a beast, and a ruthless women who does not care about her own flesh and blood, but once one learns about all the pain Sethe went through, this murder becomes more seems to be a murder committed due to a mothers love for her child.

This act of revenge is committed for no reason. Unlike Sethe, who murdered her children for their good, Medea murdered her children as an act of revenge. Her character changed dramatically, from being the character everyone sympathized for to being the character hated by everyone. This act was completely animal like, and there is no possible was that Medea was sane at the time of the murder. She must have gone insane when she heard that Jason was cheating on her, because ther

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