I think Sethe pays one of the most ultimate prices any mother can pay. She lost the true love and support of her family the second she killed Beloved, yet she is lied to about it. In killing Beloved and attempting to kill her other children, Sethe thinks she is saving them from a life of torture and slavery. However, when she harms and kills her own children, it does not instill the love and dedication in them they think their mother has. In instead instills drastic fear in them. As revealed in Denver’s stream of consciousness. Her children love her strictly out of fear that they will be tortured by her. Not only did she lose the true love of her family, but, she physically lost her two sons. Although she completed her action out of Good heart, she payed the ultimate price losing her children, metaphorically and physically.
I agree that the ultimate price for Sethe would be the distance created between her and her three living children. Especially knowing how caring, passionate, and family driven Sethe was, to have her children leave the 124 or pretend to love her out of fear that she will kill them must be terrible. While she thinks she avoided her daughter from entering slavery by killing her, she increases the chances of Howard and Buglar having an uncertain fate when they leave 124 and go out into the world. Her heart is her children and her heart is dismantled into different fragments because none of them live in perfect harmony as one family.
After killing her daughter, Sethe is forever scarred. Not only does this murder affect Sethe, but it impacts her children as well. As Marina said, Denver grew to love Sethe out of fear and her two sons just abandoned her. Even though her daughter stays with her, she lives isolated from everyone in the community, creating an extremely lonely environment for both of them. Eventually, Sethe lets Beloved consume her entire life because she is so sorry. The ghost of Beloved took everything away from Sethe, negatively impacting those who love her such as her children.
Unfortunately for the rest of Sethe’s life she has to pay a price for her actions. Killing her daughter mentally destroyed her, causing Sethe to be traumatized forever. Not only is she mentally scarred, but physically she is isolated and judged by the rest of society. When Beloved came back Sethe allowed herself to be overtaken and let Beloved walk all over her. Like Steph said, Sethe had everything taken away from her by Beloved, paying the price for what she had done.
Sethe's actions were extreme and because of them she loses everything that is dear to heart, her children. Sethe kills Beloved out of love, to keep her from slavery but in the end, because of the murder, Sethe loses all of her children. Beloved's return in the beginning of the novel is unclear but eventually it becomes obvious that she has come back not out of love but vengeance. When Beloved finally leaves after accomplishing her goal of destroying Sethe, Sethe experiences the worst pain a mother could ever imagine, the loss of their child. It is even seen when Morrison states "He is coming into her yard and he is coming for her best thing" (Morrison, 308). This scene is powerful because the reader sees that at this point of the novel Sethe has lost it all. Her children and also her mental health and because of it not even the love of Paul D. can change that.
Simply, Sethe looses all that a person would consider that which truly matters. Sethe lost all of her children that day, Howard and Buglar were out the door when Beloved came for them, and Denver and her mother never had a real relationship because Sethe was plagued by the memories of Beloved. That was the day Baby Suggs lost her heart and consigned to death, it was the day Sethe lost her community and the day Sethe lost her humanity. In losing her child, the memory has chased Sethe all those years after, the world is muted to her, and no one dares enter her home except for the daughter who is too afraid to leave it. Even after Paul D had the courage to enter, Beloved drove him out too.
Sethe pays a major price for actions. Just as Katie said, Sethe lost all that would have ever mattered to her. The day in which she murdered Beloved shut every door in Sethe's life. She lost her oldest daughter while leaving the other three children traumatized. They no longer loved their mother. They feared her. Her two sons, Howard and Buglar took off because loving their mother became too much of a hassle and fearing their mother became a reality. Sethe's relationship with Denver never had the chance to even really begin and even Sethe's love life failed, too.
Sethe’s actions cause her to live her life without the most important someone can have: family. She killed her daughter which dorve away her two sons, and the only other child he had failed to build a relationship with her. Sethe is forced to live with the horrors and regret of what she did amd it destroyed her family and her mental well being.
Over the course of her life, Sethe has sacrificed a lot for her family. Between escaping Sweet Home, she risked the lives of her family. Although everyone got to Baby Suggs home safely, Sethe’s sons slowly left and her husband never returned. She lost half of her family right in that moment. As we know, Sethe killed her daughter Beloved. Sethe risked her family and her reputation with this sinful act. Her family and herself was then seen as evil and some dark omen. Even her house was a nerve-wracking image to come by. This murder risked her future relationships, such as the one with Paul D. With the return of Beloved, she also risked the relationship between her and her daughters. She tried so hard to please Beloved and win her trust and love back, that she lost interest in caring for Denver. She really paid the price on making Beloved angry, because she paid the price of her life for Beloved. Sethe felt as though she owed Beloved her life, so that is ultimately what she gave her. She risked it all. She truly just lost her family.
After killing her daughter, Sethe pays the ultimate price. She was haunted by her daughter and lost everyone she loved. At one point, she even lost herself by being so consumed by the presence of Beloved. Her family was destroyed. Two of her sons ran away and the other was abandoned. Her own children were so scared of her that they ran away. Even Baby Suggs lost a great amount of her energy and her willpower.
Sethe pays a huge cost for her past actions throughout the novel. Firstly, she is haunted by a ghost in 124. Additionally, she is physically and emotionally harmed by Beloved. Beloved causes Sethe to grow extremely weak, and it becomes increasingly difficult to meet her desires. Sethe tries to indulge Beloved to make up for her past action of killing her child. However, Beloved almost kills her in the process as Sethe grows extremely weak. Additionally, Howard and Buglar run off as they are afraid of their mother. Denver is scared of her as well throughout the novel.
Sethe lives without love, she can love others, but in return hey smarty pants one loves her back, and if they do its only a matter of time till they turn on her. A person who kills there child, even for a good reason, does not deserve the love of others, since the took away the love of a child. in the end Sethe pays the ultimate price for killing her child, her own life. Beloved comes back to take what is rightfully hers, life, and she going to take it from Sethe. Sethe owes Beloved her life for what she did.
Sethe’s murder of her baby daughter causes her to have to pay the price of many consequences. The first is that she could never build a life or a tender relationship between her and her daughter. Her choice to murder Beloved also makes her pay the price of having to be haunted in her own home by an evil spirit. It also makes her become stuck in her past and unable to forget the memories of her murdering her daughter. She also has difficulty forming loving relationships with the people around her such as Paul D in Denver. Lastly she has to deal with the physical harm from the reincarnation of Beloved. She strangles her, makes her lose her job, and take her food. Overtime, she wastes away due to Beloved’s harm.
Sethe’s life begins after she arrives at 124 Bluestone Road. It was short-lived, lasting only twenty-eight days. Following the intentional murder of her child, the members of community shun her and judge her for the next eighteen years. Sethe closes herself off from emotion and tries to forget the horrors she experienced. Sethe loses out on a peaceful life following her escape from Sweet Home. It is clear that she shuts down in the way she removes color from her life. However, she is forced to remember her past because Beloved haunts her house. Beloved scares Howard and Buglar away, and Sethe has to cope with the loss of her two sons. When Beloved appears in human form, she drives Paul D away. Thus, Sethe lives a life of loss as a price for her actions.
Sethe pays the worst price for her actions. She lost everything she had as a mother by having her two sons run away from her in fear, and she had to kill her own daughter. She is forever impacted by her actions, and it impacts her family as well. Denver grew up loving Sethe out of fear of what she could do to her too. She has the constant reminder of her actions when Beloved haunts the house and especially when Beloved returns in a human form. Beloved stripping Sethe of almost everything is the price she pays for her actions as well. She begins to feel the pain that Beloved felt in the place between life and death.
Sethe pays the ultimate price for her actions. Sethe’s freedom left her with the inability to forget her past and move on. Because so much of her past caused her fear, she ended up killing her daughter. This fear led her to lose the love of her sons and led to her being haunted. Sethe sacrificed a piece of her sanity in freedom when she ran from slavery because she could never truly outrun her past. Sethe lost her innocence, her child, and her strength when she tried to move on and forget the past.
Sethe pays a huge price for her actions both emotionally and physically. First, she is haunted by Beloved’s ghost and cannot shake the memory of murdering her. No matter how hard she tries to forget, the memory stays with her. Additionally, Beloved tries to strangle Sethe. She also causes Sethe to lose her job and starve as her health slowly deteriorates. Finally, Sethe's two sons abandon her in fear after she murdered Beloved.
I think that the price Sethe pays is part of her sanity. Her extreme actions of killing her daughter didn't have a one-time consequence, instead caused many things in her life to spiral out of control. First, she lives in a house now haunted by the spirit of the daughter she murdered, which is scary enough in itself. She does not allow herself to move on and leave it in the past for it always makes its way back to her. On top of this, her sons are driven out of the house, and she suffers emotionally from loss and abandonment, as mentioned in a previous question. Already forced to live with the horrors from Sweet Home, Sethe now added more to her plate to haunt her, and it's unfortunate that it has to be this way. Paul D toward the end even leaves because of Beloved, after trying to banish her spirit and in the end, Sethe is faced with utter loss and despair, the price she pays for killing her daughter.
I believe that Sethe paid the ultimate price for her actions. Despite being free Sethe was unable to move on from the past and lived her life in a state of constant fear. Her actions caused her to lose the love of her sons, caused her daughter to be afraid of her and eventually drove away Paul D for a short time. Her actions also caused her constant pain as it was a reminder her attempt to prevent beloved from becoming enslaved constantly reminded Sethe of her mental and physical scars.
Sethe has to pay the ultimate sacrifice of not being trusting by her children. Due to her act of murdering Beloved, both oh her sons ran away from her in fear. Denver also grew up with Sethe out of fear in what Sethe can do to her. In addition, her act also drove away Paul D. for some time. Her actions also caused her to be haunted by her murder and constantly be reminded of what she has done other oldest daughter.
Sethe is haunted by her daughter, Beloved. She also has to watch her daughter get ostracized from society due to the haunted house. All of Sethe's relationships are ruined by Beloved due to the anger she feels towards her mother for killing her. Sethe's body is also forever scarred from her past due to a brutal whipping.
Sethe loses the love that a children should have for their mother. Because Sethe killed Beloved, not only is the ghost mad at her but her children are fearful of what she is capable of doing. Denver is fearful that Sethe may lash out on her one day and does not understand her mother’s actions were out of love. With two sons who ran away already and Denver who is distant from her, I feel that Sethe has paid the cost by losing part of her motherhood. Not only were her literal children not accepting of her actions but Beloved as a ghost tries to get revenge on Sethe, leaving her with the disheartened emotions that her actions caused.
Sethe is forever scarred and pays the price of guilt and torment. Her actions even as she saw them as the right thing to do will forever mentally be present. As a mother Sethe goes through the pain of losing a child, but even worse being the one to kill her child. Sethe now lives with the constant reminder and guilt.
Sethe most definitely pays the price for her actions. After Sethe murdered her daughter, her whole life crumbled.Even though Sethe murders Beloved out of love and protection, it gives off the opposite message to her children. Her two sons ran away out of fear and Denver grew up in constant fear of Sethe. All four of her children lost all trust in their mother, which is something no mother ever wants to happen. Sether paid the price by losing all value in her family. Now Sethe has to live with the haunting thoughts that she ruined all relationships in her family and the act of murder.
By committing the murder of her child, Sethe has to pay for it the rest of her life. This action has made her an outcast in their town and everyone avoids her and her family. Also, by killing Beloved, Sethe has driven away everyone that she cares about. Howard, Bulgar, and Paul D all leave and Sethe cares about all of them. Also, she has to pay for her actions by being haunted by Beloved and her spirit. Sethe committed the ultimate crime that a mother can commit and although she has justifications for her actions, she is going to pay for what she did for the rest of her life.
The price that Sethe pays for her actions is not only living with the constant guilt and reminder that she killed her own child, but she had a lonely, awful life as well. Not only did the entire community shun her for what she did, but she was unable to live her life happy or freely the way she could have as a freed slave. Instead, she was unable to get close to anyone but Denver (who she wasn't even too close to,) but when she finally had Paul D as the only sane person in her life, he was driven away after finding out about what she did. Then, when Beloved came back as a human and Sethe thought she was finally free and done with the consequences, she was reminded in words by her own daughter how it felt for Beloved to be killed by her mother, and she began to feel the pain that Beloved felt while not being accepted by her mother.
The price that Sethe has to pay for her actions is isolation. Although she knows that what she did what necessary, very few people understand her reasoning, causing them to judge her and stay away from her. The first to isolate Sethe is the community in Cincinnati. Before Beloved’s murder, 124 has been a lively place. After, no one dared to visit out of fear or disgust. Sethe’s two sons, Howard and Buglar, ran away from the house because they were scared that she would potentially hurt one of them. Sethe was even isolated from Denver. Although Denver continued to live with her mother, their relationship was not very close and Denver spent a lot of time alone. Even Paul D left Sethe after he learned about what she had done. Ultimately, Sethe had to suffer years being lonely and without love for an act that she believed she had committed out of love in the first place.
Sethe paid the price for her actions due to the revenge inflicted by Beloved. Beloved longed for a relationship with her family and to live a normal life. Sethe in term paid the price of exactly what beloved had longed for herself. Beloved destroyed Sethe’s relationships with her family and overall well being. Towards the end of the story, Sethe becomes consumed with her need t o please Beloved as she takes over her life.
Sethe paid for her actions by losing everything. She once had the support of a family, of a community. Due to her actions, she lost her two sons, and mentally, Denver. Denver always had the fear that Sethe would do something bad to her as well, which is why they could never form a bond. Paul D was the first person in a long time to love Sethe and befriend her, but that was before he knew her story and Beloved scared him away. She was paying for what she did long before Beloved went into her human form. Sethe became stuck in a rememory, not being able to move on because of what she did.
Sethe pays for actions for the rest of her life. Her mother, who made it a point not to love her, even expressed her disappointment by telling her she choice to kill Beloved was not hers to make. Her entire community turned their backs on her. S he was no longer accepted by them. When her and Denver attended gatherings no one would allow themselves or their children to eat the food made by Sethe or Denver. Their community believed she was wrong I her actions and wanted nothing to do with her because of them. They did not see the motherly desire to protect that the author points out to us. Also she looses Paul D.. The first individual in her life that can offer her true happiness and some type of normality in her chaotic life leaves because of what she did to her child. This action haunts her for the rest of her life and it affects every relationship she has in life.
Sethe pays the priceless toll of her life for her actions. As dramatic as this seems, I believe it to be true. While Sethe never literally dies in the novel, she is forever changed after killing her child, and when Beloved’s rememory comes and goes, Sethe is left physically and emotionally weakened. By the end of the novel, one can argue that Sethe is hypothetically deceased, for the life has been sucked out of her. After Sethe killed Beloved and attempted to kill her three other children (with only good intentions) she thought her family would be able to see her motivation and support her decisions, and sadly she was mistaken. The murder attempt scared away her children and created a riff with them. While her relationship with Denver was still in tact (even though Denver feared her mother), after Beloved’s rememory came along, Sethe and Denver’s relationship was badly damaged. Any sense of normalcy in her family life was destroyed when Sethe made the choice to kill her child. Also, Sethe experiences the loss of the same child twice, which is also extremely taxing on Sethe’s fragile heart.
Sethe gives up everything to save her child. She loses the support of her entire community, she paints herself as a monster, and she instills a fear of herself in her other children, which ultimately causes her two sons to leave and Denver to be unsure of how genuine Sethe's love is. Most importantly, Sethe sacrifices her newfound freedom. While she is still technically free and no longer a slave, she becomes chained by the trauma of murdering her child, and the re-memory prevents her from ever moving on. Sethe even admits to this when she says that she was free for 28 days (the time between reaching the north and when she murdered Beloved). Even though she was not recaptured, she never says that she is free again because she becomes a slave to her past.
I think Sethe pays one of the most ultimate prices any mother can pay. She lost the true love and support of her family the second she killed Beloved, yet she is lied to about it. In killing Beloved and attempting to kill her other children, Sethe thinks she is saving them from a life of torture and slavery. However, when she harms and kills her own children, it does not instill the love and dedication in them they think their mother has. In instead instills drastic fear in them. As revealed in Denver’s stream of consciousness. Her children love her strictly out of fear that they will be tortured by her. Not only did she lose the true love of her family, but, she physically lost her two sons. Although she completed her action out of Good heart, she payed the ultimate price losing her children, metaphorically and physically.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the ultimate price for Sethe would be the distance created between her and her three living children. Especially knowing how caring, passionate, and family driven Sethe was, to have her children leave the 124 or pretend to love her out of fear that she will kill them must be terrible. While she thinks she avoided her daughter from entering slavery by killing her, she increases the chances of Howard and Buglar having an uncertain fate when they leave 124 and go out into the world. Her heart is her children and her heart is dismantled into different fragments because none of them live in perfect harmony as one family.
DeleteAfter killing her daughter, Sethe is forever scarred. Not only does this murder affect Sethe, but it impacts her children as well. As Marina said, Denver grew to love Sethe out of fear and her two sons just abandoned her. Even though her daughter stays with her, she lives isolated from everyone in the community, creating an extremely lonely environment for both of them. Eventually, Sethe lets Beloved consume her entire life because she is so sorry. The ghost of Beloved took everything away from Sethe, negatively impacting those who love her such as her children.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately for the rest of Sethe’s life she has to pay a price for her actions. Killing her daughter mentally destroyed her, causing Sethe to be traumatized forever. Not only is she mentally scarred, but physically she is isolated and judged by the rest of society. When Beloved came back Sethe allowed herself to be overtaken and let Beloved walk all over her. Like Steph said, Sethe had everything taken away from her by Beloved, paying the price for what she had done.
DeleteSethe's actions were extreme and because of them she loses everything that is dear to heart, her children. Sethe kills Beloved out of love, to keep her from slavery but in the end, because of the murder, Sethe loses all of her children. Beloved's return in the beginning of the novel is unclear but eventually it becomes obvious that she has come back not out of love but vengeance. When Beloved finally leaves after accomplishing her goal of destroying Sethe, Sethe experiences the worst pain a mother could ever imagine, the loss of their child. It is even seen when Morrison states "He is coming into her yard and he is coming for her best thing" (Morrison, 308). This scene is powerful because the reader sees that at this point of the novel Sethe has lost it all. Her children and also her mental health and because of it not even the love of Paul D. can change that.
ReplyDeleteSimply, Sethe looses all that a person would consider that which truly matters. Sethe lost all of her children that day, Howard and Buglar were out the door when Beloved came for them, and Denver and her mother never had a real relationship because Sethe was plagued by the memories of Beloved. That was the day Baby Suggs lost her heart and consigned to death, it was the day Sethe lost her community and the day Sethe lost her humanity. In losing her child, the memory has chased Sethe all those years after, the world is muted to her, and no one dares enter her home except for the daughter who is too afraid to leave it. Even after Paul D had the courage to enter, Beloved drove him out too.
ReplyDeleteSethe pays a major price for actions. Just as Katie said, Sethe lost all that would have ever mattered to her. The day in which she murdered Beloved shut every door in Sethe's life. She lost her oldest daughter while leaving the other three children traumatized. They no longer loved their mother. They feared her. Her two sons, Howard and Buglar took off because loving their mother became too much of a hassle and fearing their mother became a reality. Sethe's relationship with Denver never had the chance to even really begin and even Sethe's love life failed, too.
ReplyDeleteSethe’s actions cause her to live her life without the most important someone can have: family. She killed her daughter which dorve away her two sons, and the only other child he had failed to build a relationship with her. Sethe is forced to live with the horrors and regret of what she did amd it destroyed her family and her mental well being.
ReplyDeleteOver the course of her life, Sethe has sacrificed a lot for her family. Between escaping Sweet Home, she risked the lives of her family. Although everyone got to Baby Suggs home safely, Sethe’s sons slowly left and her husband never returned. She lost half of her family right in that moment. As we know, Sethe killed her daughter Beloved. Sethe risked her family and her reputation with this sinful act. Her family and herself was then seen as evil and some dark omen. Even her house was a nerve-wracking image to come by. This murder risked her future relationships, such as the one with Paul D. With the return of Beloved, she also risked the relationship between her and her daughters. She tried so hard to please Beloved and win her trust and love back, that she lost interest in caring for Denver. She really paid the price on making Beloved angry, because she paid the price of her life for Beloved. Sethe felt as though she owed Beloved her life, so that is ultimately what she gave her. She risked it all. She truly just lost her family.
ReplyDeleteAfter killing her daughter, Sethe pays the ultimate price. She was haunted by her daughter and lost everyone she loved. At one point, she even lost herself by being so consumed by the presence of Beloved. Her family was destroyed. Two of her sons ran away and the other was abandoned. Her own children were so scared of her that they ran away. Even Baby Suggs lost a great amount of her energy and her willpower.
ReplyDeleteThe murder of her daughter affects her everyday and she will never forget what she did. She will be haunted by it forever.
DeleteSethe pays a huge cost for her past actions throughout the novel. Firstly, she is haunted by a ghost in 124. Additionally, she is physically and emotionally harmed by Beloved. Beloved causes Sethe to grow extremely weak, and it becomes increasingly difficult to meet her desires. Sethe tries to indulge Beloved to make up for her past action of killing her child. However, Beloved almost kills her in the process as Sethe grows extremely weak. Additionally, Howard and Buglar run off as they are afraid of their mother. Denver is scared of her as well throughout the novel.
ReplyDeleteSethe lives without love, she can love others, but in return hey smarty pants one loves her back, and if they do its only a matter of time till they turn on her. A person who kills there child, even for a good reason, does not deserve the love of others, since the took away the love of a child. in the end Sethe pays the ultimate price for killing her child, her own life. Beloved comes back to take what is rightfully hers, life, and she going to take it from Sethe. Sethe owes Beloved her life for what she did.
ReplyDeleteSethe’s murder of her baby daughter causes her to have to pay the price of many consequences. The first is that she could never build a life or a tender relationship between her and her daughter. Her choice to murder Beloved also makes her pay the price of having to be haunted in her own home by an evil spirit. It also makes her become stuck in her past and unable to forget the memories of her murdering her daughter. She also has difficulty forming loving relationships with the people around her such as Paul D in Denver.
ReplyDeleteLastly she has to deal with the physical harm from the reincarnation of Beloved. She strangles her, makes her lose her job, and take her food. Overtime, she wastes away due to Beloved’s harm.
Sethe’s life begins after she arrives at 124 Bluestone Road. It was short-lived, lasting only twenty-eight days. Following the intentional murder of her child, the members of community shun her and judge her for the next eighteen years. Sethe closes herself off from emotion and tries to forget the horrors she experienced. Sethe loses out on a peaceful life following her escape from Sweet Home. It is clear that she shuts down in the way she removes color from her life. However, she is forced to remember her past because Beloved haunts her house. Beloved scares Howard and Buglar away, and Sethe has to cope with the loss of her two sons. When Beloved appears in human form, she drives Paul D away. Thus, Sethe lives a life of loss as a price for her actions.
ReplyDeleteSethe pays the worst price for her actions. She lost everything she had as a mother by having her two sons run away from her in fear, and she had to kill her own daughter. She is forever impacted by her actions, and it impacts her family as well. Denver grew up loving Sethe out of fear of what she could do to her too. She has the constant reminder of her actions when Beloved haunts the house and especially when Beloved returns in a human form. Beloved stripping Sethe of almost everything is the price she pays for her actions as well. She begins to feel the pain that Beloved felt in the place between life and death.
ReplyDeleteSethe pays the ultimate price for her actions. Sethe’s freedom left her with the inability to forget her past and move on. Because so much of her past caused her fear, she ended up killing her daughter. This fear led her to lose the love of her sons and led to her being haunted. Sethe sacrificed a piece of her sanity in freedom when she ran from slavery because she could never truly outrun her past. Sethe lost her innocence, her child, and her strength when she tried to move on and forget the past.
ReplyDeleteSethe pays a huge price for her actions both emotionally and physically. First, she is haunted by Beloved’s ghost and cannot shake the memory of murdering her. No matter how hard she tries to forget, the memory stays with her. Additionally, Beloved tries to strangle Sethe. She also causes Sethe to lose her job and starve as her health slowly deteriorates. Finally, Sethe's two sons abandon her in fear after she murdered Beloved.
ReplyDeleteI think that the price Sethe pays is part of her sanity. Her extreme actions of killing her daughter didn't have a one-time consequence, instead caused many things in her life to spiral out of control. First, she lives in a house now haunted by the spirit of the daughter she murdered, which is scary enough in itself. She does not allow herself to move on and leave it in the past for it always makes its way back to her. On top of this, her sons are driven out of the house, and she suffers emotionally from loss and abandonment, as mentioned in a previous question. Already forced to live with the horrors from Sweet Home, Sethe now added more to her plate to haunt her, and it's unfortunate that it has to be this way. Paul D toward the end even leaves because of Beloved, after trying to banish her spirit and in the end, Sethe is faced with utter loss and despair, the price she pays for killing her daughter.
ReplyDeleteI believe that Sethe paid the ultimate price for her actions. Despite being free Sethe was unable to move on from the past and lived her life in a state of constant fear. Her actions caused her to lose the love of her sons, caused her daughter to be afraid of her and eventually drove away Paul D for a short time. Her actions also caused her constant pain as it was a reminder her attempt to prevent beloved from becoming enslaved constantly reminded Sethe of her mental and physical scars.
ReplyDeleteSethe has to pay the ultimate sacrifice of not being trusting by her children. Due to her act of murdering Beloved, both oh her sons ran away from her in fear. Denver also grew up with Sethe out of fear in what Sethe can do to her. In addition, her act also drove away Paul D. for some time. Her actions also caused her to be haunted by her murder and constantly be reminded of what she has done other oldest daughter.
ReplyDeleteSethe is haunted by her daughter, Beloved. She also has to watch her daughter get ostracized from society due to the haunted house. All of Sethe's relationships are ruined by Beloved due to the anger she feels towards her mother for killing her. Sethe's body is also forever scarred from her past due to a brutal whipping.
ReplyDeleteSethe loses the love that a children should have for their mother. Because Sethe killed Beloved, not only is the ghost mad at her but her children are fearful of what she is capable of doing. Denver is fearful that Sethe may lash out on her one day and does not understand her mother’s actions were out of love. With two sons who ran away already and Denver who is distant from her, I feel that Sethe has paid the cost by losing part of her motherhood. Not only were her literal children not accepting of her actions but Beloved as a ghost tries to get revenge on Sethe, leaving her with the disheartened emotions that her actions caused.
ReplyDeleteSethe is forever scarred and pays the price of guilt and torment. Her actions even as she saw them as the right thing to do will forever mentally be present. As a mother Sethe goes through the pain of losing a child, but even worse being the one to kill her child. Sethe now lives with the constant reminder and guilt.
ReplyDeleteSethe most definitely pays the price for her actions. After Sethe murdered her daughter, her whole life crumbled.Even though Sethe murders Beloved out of love and protection, it gives off the opposite message to her children. Her two sons ran away out of fear and Denver grew up in constant fear of Sethe. All four of her children lost all trust in their mother, which is something no mother ever wants to happen. Sether paid the price by losing all value in her family. Now Sethe has to live with the haunting thoughts that she ruined all relationships in her family and the act of murder.
ReplyDeleteBy committing the murder of her child, Sethe has to pay for it the rest of her life. This action has made her an outcast in their town and everyone avoids her and her family. Also, by killing Beloved, Sethe has driven away everyone that she cares about. Howard, Bulgar, and Paul D all leave and Sethe cares about all of them. Also, she has to pay for her actions by being haunted by Beloved and her spirit. Sethe committed the ultimate crime that a mother can commit and although she has justifications for her actions, she is going to pay for what she did for the rest of her life.
ReplyDeleteThe price that Sethe pays for her actions is not only living with the constant guilt and reminder that she killed her own child, but she had a lonely, awful life as well. Not only did the entire community shun her for what she did, but she was unable to live her life happy or freely the way she could have as a freed slave. Instead, she was unable to get close to anyone but Denver (who she wasn't even too close to,) but when she finally had Paul D as the only sane person in her life, he was driven away after finding out about what she did. Then, when Beloved came back as a human and Sethe thought she was finally free and done with the consequences, she was reminded in words by her own daughter how it felt for Beloved to be killed by her mother, and she began to feel the pain that Beloved felt while not being accepted by her mother.
ReplyDeleteThe price that Sethe has to pay for her actions is isolation. Although she knows that what she did what necessary, very few people understand her reasoning, causing them to judge her and stay away from her. The first to isolate Sethe is the community in Cincinnati. Before Beloved’s murder, 124 has been a lively place. After, no one dared to visit out of fear or disgust. Sethe’s two sons, Howard and Buglar, ran away from the house because they were scared that she would potentially hurt one of them. Sethe was even isolated from Denver. Although Denver continued to live with her mother, their relationship was not very close and Denver spent a lot of time alone. Even Paul D left Sethe after he learned about what she had done. Ultimately, Sethe had to suffer years being lonely and without love for an act that she believed she had committed out of love in the first place.
ReplyDeleteSethe paid the price for her actions due to the revenge inflicted by Beloved. Beloved longed for a relationship with her family and to live a normal life. Sethe in term paid the price of exactly what beloved had longed for herself. Beloved destroyed Sethe’s relationships with her family and overall well being. Towards the end of the story, Sethe becomes consumed with her need t o please Beloved as she takes over her life.
ReplyDeleteSethe paid for her actions by losing everything. She once had the support of a family, of a community. Due to her actions, she lost her two sons, and mentally, Denver. Denver always had the fear that Sethe would do something bad to her as well, which is why they could never form a bond. Paul D was the first person in a long time to love Sethe and befriend her, but that was before he knew her story and Beloved scared him away. She was paying for what she did long before Beloved went into her human form. Sethe became stuck in a rememory, not being able to move on because of what she did.
ReplyDeleteSethe pays for actions for the rest of her life. Her mother, who made it a point not to love her, even expressed her disappointment by telling her she choice to kill Beloved was not hers to make. Her entire community turned their backs on her. S he was no longer accepted by them. When her and Denver attended gatherings no one would allow themselves or their children to eat the food made by Sethe or Denver. Their community believed she was wrong I her actions and wanted nothing to do with her because of them. They did not see the motherly desire to protect that the author points out to us. Also she looses Paul D.. The first individual in her life that can offer her true happiness and some type of normality in her chaotic life leaves because of what she did to her child. This action haunts her for the rest of her life and it affects every relationship she has in life.
ReplyDeleteSethe pays the priceless toll of her life for her actions. As dramatic as this seems, I believe it to be true. While Sethe never literally dies in the novel, she is forever changed after killing her child, and when Beloved’s rememory comes and goes, Sethe is left physically and emotionally weakened. By the end of the novel, one can argue that Sethe is hypothetically deceased, for the life has been sucked out of her. After Sethe killed Beloved and attempted to kill her three other children (with only good intentions) she thought her family would be able to see her motivation and support her decisions, and sadly she was mistaken. The murder attempt scared away her children and created a riff with them. While her relationship with Denver was still in tact (even though Denver feared her mother), after Beloved’s rememory came along, Sethe and Denver’s relationship was badly damaged. Any sense of normalcy in her family life was destroyed when Sethe made the choice to kill her child. Also, Sethe experiences the loss of the same child twice, which is also extremely taxing on Sethe’s fragile heart.
ReplyDeleteSethe gives up everything to save her child. She loses the support of her entire community, she paints herself as a monster, and she instills a fear of herself in her other children, which ultimately causes her two sons to leave and Denver to be unsure of how genuine Sethe's love is. Most importantly, Sethe sacrifices her newfound freedom. While she is still technically free and no longer a slave, she becomes chained by the trauma of murdering her child, and the re-memory prevents her from ever moving on. Sethe even admits to this when she says that she was free for 28 days (the time between reaching the north and when she murdered Beloved). Even though she was not recaptured, she never says that she is free again because she becomes a slave to her past.
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