In the course of Beloved by Toni Morrison, Sethe undergoes a journey from a woman whose only identity is drawn from the fact that she is a mother, to the beginnings of identifying herself as a human being. To Sethe, the future was a matter of “keeping the past at bay.” She is a frustrated woman who finds no comfort in the society until she faces her past. There is a need for humankind to cope with the past in order to progress to the future. Slavery was tearing apart Sethe’s life right from the get-go. Blacks were dehumanized by their w ....