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Magic Realism in Beloved
Magic Realism in Beloved
The fantastical object- the ghost that appeared in Beloved reigns above
all the other mystical elements existing in Toni Morrison’s. While the
ghost is naturally fearsome enough and naturally could be used to scare
the reader, the ghost in Beloved did not appear as a scary ghost from
the horror stories, it holds a number of remarkable features. Mystical
atmosphere of the Novel involves the reader from the very beginning of
the by drawing a fragile line between dead and the living ones. This
strategy reflects the one of horror in the way it violates limits of natural
events. Although the narrative is considerably different from the
structure of traditional horror stories. Usually any type of monsters
from the horror story enters a secure space driven by chaotic force
eventually being followed by a detective figure who examines
monster’s emergence and approaches to eradicate it. However, the
ghost in the novel Beloved infuriates the space that is stable and there
is no distinct detective figure tracking the ghost.
CONCLUSION
The main and the most significant case of magic realism is the ghost
Beloved. She appears to carry a number of functions in the story. The
first one is to force other characters to free the oppressed memories by
triggering them and force to remember all the traumatic past
experiences and live in the present without a sorrow in their hearts and
minds. The second function of Beloved is to bring the black history to
life as she could be considered as dead and reincarnated woman slave.
She is making references of the slave ships by describing the conditions
in them.