【正文】 a, and even to the whole world, but they still can’t be accepted by the society. Actually, people know very little about the black women, and about the troubles they met and the respect they should get in their work, in their marriage, in their character as a mother, in their spiritual life and their belief. Morrison always tries to express to other people that though the black women have a tragic life they never give up their faith in selfgrowth, and though their growing process is full of difficulties, they finally build themselves up, and bravely face the present and the future. 攀枝花學(xué)院本科畢業(yè)論文 Body 2 I. The Tragedy and Growth of the Black Women A. The Tragedy of the Black Women Morrison chooses the 124 house on Bluestone Road in Cincinnati as the scene of the story. The time is 1873. Although it was 18 years ago when she escaped from the Sweet Home and killed her daughter. It was still a strong memory in Sethe’s mind. At the beginning of the fiction, it said that ―124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom.‖ But ―by 1873 Sethe and her daughter Denver were its only victims.‖ (Morrison 3). The baby ghost was always in the house. It speeded the Grandmother’s death, and made the little daughter Denver eccentric. The whole story begins with a mysterious ambience, and it is even like a ghost story. In Morrison’s mind, brutal act from human being is crueler than slavery itself, so she bitterly attacks it and describes the real situation of black slaves in the world: White people believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigable waters swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red gums ready for their sweet white blood. The more colored people spent their strength trying to convince them how gentle they were, how clever and loving, how human, the more they used themselves up to persuade whites of something Negroes believed could not be questioned, the deeper and more tangled the jungle grew inside. The screaming baboon lived under their own white skin。 the red gums were their own. (Morrison 198) In Beloved, the schoolteacher is a typical white man。 he seems to be impartial and objective. But what he and his nephews did was really brutal: in order to do socalled research, he used to gauge the black slaves, like the draught animals. One of the nephews had nursed Sethe while his brother held her down. The white people do good or evil things just as they like, and the black people have no choices, but receive all. With the ing of the modern society, the scientific and democratic spirit has been put around the United States, but never the AfricaAmericans. The ghosts of the black slaves are the irrefutable evidence. Morrison once said, her works are for the black people themselves. The black people should love themselves。 especially the black women need do so. In Beloved, Sethe has to kill her daughter, and undoubtedly that’s a big tragedy. Besides, Beloved herself is a tragedy too. She es to this world at a wrong time, and is killed by her mother. When she es back, she is treated as an evil. At the end of the Beloved, Morrison 攀枝花學(xué)院本科畢業(yè)論文 Body 3 writes: Everybody knew what she was called, but nobody anywhere knew her name. Disremembered and unaccounted for, she cannot be lost because no one is looking for her, and even if they were, how can they call her if they know her name? Although she has claim, she id not claimed. In the place where long grass opens, the girl who waited to be loved and cry shame erupts into her separate parts, to make it easy for the chewing laughter to swallow her all away. (Morrison 274) Although the daughter’s name is Beloved, she never gets love. Nobody loves her, she is just considered a ghost, and everybody expels her. In fact, the black women are born to be looked down upon. They are looked down upon by the white people, and even by some black male. So actually, they are the most tragic people in the world. They always have to bear the pains and sufferings both from race and sex discrimination which is heavily imposed on them. The black women are looked down upon for the color of their skin all the time. Although the American Constitution says that everyone is equal in the society. But in reality, colored people, especially the black women, never have equal rights and respect. They usually stay at the bottom of the society. In American society, generally, people hold the idea that only the white people are in the main stream. They would like to divide Americans into several classes. Of course the white people are the first class people, and they are the center of the social life. There are no blacks or other colored people who can be the president, or even the leading officers. For the white people, they believe they are, undoubtedly, superior to the black people。 the black people were born to be slaves, or the lowest class people. At the late of the 19th century, the black people’s human rights and civil rights had been accepted in law, but in practice they were still oppressed physiologically and intelligently. For law, it prescribes that everyone is equal, but it does not prescribe that the white and black people can sit together, share the public equipment together, or work together. Therefore, in many places, the whites and the blacks are segregated. In restaurant, there are the Whites’ Zone and the Blacks’ Zone。 in the train, there are different carriages for the whites and the blacks. In the past, the black people were told that the reason why they were black was because their blood was black, and they were dyed with the black blood. So many black women tried to find husbands which were whiter to mix because they believed that the blackness would 攀枝