Abstract: Toni Morrison is one of the most distinguished black woman writers in American Literature. Besides, she is the first black woman winner who won Nobel Prize of Literature. Beloved, one of her best novels has been researched for over 10 years. Beloved is a major works of modern African-American literature, which contains slavery, feminism, theme of mothers and so on. Besides, it explains the social statue of African Americans in the past and nowadays. This paper aims to investigate the influence of maternal love in Beloved by means of listing examples and reading the novel in detail. There are three parts in the paper, containing three small parts: desperate love, spoiled love and crazy love. Last but not least, according to the research of Beloved, we can know more about the theme it has, and then broaden the knowledge of Morrison’s creation.

Key words: maternal Love; black community

CONTENTS  

Abstract

中文摘要

1. Introduction1

1.1 Introduction to Toni Morrison1

   1.2 Introduction to Beloved2

   1.3 Literature Review2

2. Sethe’s Maternal Love in Beloved3

   2.1 Sethe’s Crazy Love3

   2.2 Sethe’s Spoiled Love5

   2.3 Sethe’s Desperate Love6 

3.Conclusion7

Bibliography10

Acknowledgements11