CHARACTERIZATION IN TONI MORRISON’S BELOVED TO CONVEY THE THEMES VIOLENCE AND SLAVERY’S DESTRUCTION OF IDENTITY

Abstract

It is natural that human beings show an interest to find out matters in others’ surroundings. It is reasonable to expel readers since they also represent a category of humans. Readers are also interested in real life stories of authors when they engage with reading, because it provides them a wide space to think and experience than merely referring a book. Therefore, some authors try their maximum to attach something real and true from their lives in their pieces of writing to add a literary value and a depth to the composed text. So with this general understanding when it turns towards Beloved written by Toni Morrison, she has employed many incidents and factors in the text that are closely related with Black community which was underestimated by white people for number of decades. In the novel, the writer uses many places, characters and incidents to indicate the degree of violence that her people had to feel and face before white people. Mainly she focuses about the effects of slavery and its’ long lasting results upon victims. In this study the main attention goes for identification of the characterization of the author to represent the theme violence and slavery’s destruction of identity.