I decided to analyze Terry Paul Caesar’s article regarding Motherhood. The author specifies in the relationship between Motherhood and Slavery. The author goes more into depth that because of slavery many mothers have to make very difficult decisions. In the book Sethe makes a hard decision of taking her daughter's life. That option crosses her mind because she doesn't want her daughter to be born into slavery. If born into slavery there isn’t a purpose in life there is no reason to live because your opinions are pointless you become a “thing”. The article also goes into depth into the difference between being a woman and a mother. It specifies that women just think of themselves and make choices that would benefit them and help them out in the long run. In the other hand, being a mother you need think about another human being not just yourself and Sethe displays that in the book. Sethe is one out of many character portrayed as figure of motherhood. The article then concludes that “Morrisons critiques the notion of motherhood as a liberating bond between mother and child”. Meaning that Sethe’s role as a mother is something that is very important throughout the book.
What Terry Paul Caeser claims in the article relates to my own thoughts of the book and what motherhood truly represents. From the entire book what stuck out to me the most was how Sethe was able to sacrifice her own daughter to possibility free her from her own freedom. In the article it also analyzes Sethe’s choice in taking the life of her own daughter. The author questions if Sethe did it to save herself from misery or to save her daughter from misery. But from all that we have learned from Sethe we can assume her attention wasn’t really to save her own life but her daughters. When Sethe recognizes Beloved she gets a sense of relief because she has another chance to make things right.
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