The movie Beloved takes place just after the Civil War, during slavery. The story takes place in a rough-hewn house outside of Cincinnati, which belongs to an ex-slave named Sethe.
She has gone from plantation life to owning this house. The house contains a lot of memories. Sethe has gone through so much torment. She was raped by some men on her plantation and her husband saw.
Sethe’s husband paid for the freedom of her and her children. Sethe gave birth to a child and was helped by a white woman while on her way to the North. She promised to name her child after her. That is how Denver got her name. She was jailed for killing one of her children because she did not want the slave man to retrieve them.
She was stopped before she could kill the rest of her children. The climax of the movie is the arrival of a breathtaking apparition: a beautiful young woman dressed in mourning, washed up on a river bank. This happens to be Beloved.
Throughout the movie, Beloved slowly reveals her earthbound side. Before, she was at the crossroads of the supernatural and the natural world. Beloved cunningly suspends Sethe between past horrors and the potential of renewing them. Oprah Winfrey, who plays Sethe, supplies a sense of the deep, stubborn essence essential to Sethe’s survival. Sethe’s friend Paul D, an ex-slave who has wandered alone for nearly two decades, wanders to Sethe’s door looking for a place to stay. Sethe lets him stay because she too has been alone for some years now.
She enjoys his company. He did not get off to a good start with Denver because she was not used to sharing her mother. Denver did not have to share her mother since she can remember because her brothers had left when she was still an infant. Paul D and her teenage daughter, Denver, are both devastated by this dangerous person who calls herself Beloved. Denver and Paul D had just reached a truce before Beloved came. Things got back to being hectic.
Denver befriends Beloved and treats her as her sister. Beloved brought tension to the house as she wanted to be spoiled by Sethe. Denver started to feel rejected. Paul D is so uncomfortable with Beloved’s presence that he stops sleeping in the bed and starts sleeping on a chair. Beloved has this force that she uses.
Anything that she wants, she will do something in order to get it. Beloved is the spirit of Sethe’s child that she killed. Beloved did not think that was fair. Beloved has come to get revenge and she haunts and torments Sethe until she is satisfied.
