Beloved的理解

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宠儿代表的其实是Sethe的执念。

Sethe当初在杀掉宠儿的时候，她内心是向往自己的孩子能在死亡中脱离奴隶主的桎梏，拥有永恒的自由的，但是她的这种向往，最后在其他人的蔑视里面分崩离析，这就是萨特所说的，他人即地狱。

事实上，Sethe后期一直魂牵梦萦的孩子代表的只是她在自我意识成长的挣扎当中的一个症状。她杀掉自己的孩子，代表的是她作为一个女性，一个奴隶，能够意识到自己要去掌握自己的生命权的自我意识的觉醒。但是当她被自己的社群里的其他人孤立的时候，Sethe又对自己的这种自我意识产生了怀疑。这是一个人在产生自我意识时都会遇到的瓶颈。最后宠儿的离开，代表的即是Sethe本人自我意识的最终确立。

宠儿和Sethe之间的这种母女关系一直是畸形的，有一个很明显的例子，就是在书中有一段宠儿差点要把Sethe的精血吸走，然后把她杀死。所以宠儿代表的很明显不只是那个死去的孩子的灵魂，更是Sethe在自我成长路上的一个矛盾。Sethe认为她补偿宠儿，自己就可以获得自己的解脱，但事实上这与她本人的自我觉醒意识相违背。直到最后，她自己也意识到了这一点，然后选择了抛弃掉自己的过去。

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The whole story is a complete horror story. However, the scariest isn’t the ghost part; instead, it’s the real living conditions of black slaves during that time. Author vividly described the horrible situation and black people’s desperation in it, and how they yearned for freedom. The story is so alive that I had to look up dictionary frequently to understand the true meaning of words and phrases.
The irony of the story is Sethe killed her beloved daughter to avoid her daughter following her miserable life path as a female slave. The characters’ desperation makes me want to know what really happened to black slaves during that period in history. How blacks escaped from farmland in the south to free state in the north, what historical events were related and what political policies were related etc become really fascinating to me.

Eternivan

I don't think the living conditions of black slaves of that time are the most frightening, because what you mentioned is the fact. Fact is clear, and you may ascribe it to be miserable and astonishing, but it is not scrary. What could be considerated as scary is something subtle that is decaying, and something violent you may not have sensed but may come about in the future. In this way, what has taken place could not be the sceariest, because who knows if the future will become better. So the plot of Sethe murdering her own children with which she even felt delighted is the scariest. But I don't think it is proper to call it irony. Although this plot satires the dark age, but it's too melancholy to be called irony. If I am allowed to choose, I may be sympothetic about what Sethe has done.

Elma

作为一个普通的女黑奴，在这么强大而又根深蒂固的制度前，塞丝没有别的什么办法来保护自己的骨肉不受摧残、不受奴役，所以她选择让宠儿去见上帝，她觉得这是宠儿更好的归宿，我觉得与其说塞丝心理扭曲，倒不如说是美国非人的黑奴制度残害肉体与思想，荼毒心灵，让黑奴在夹缝中也感到生不如死，于是他们便对这个世界彻底绝望了，塞丝便是在这种极度绝望的情况下选择常人难以理解的方式来解放宠儿，如果我们用同理心在当时的社会背景下来理解这种做法的话，会觉得这种极端与残忍其实是塞丝在释放对宠儿强烈的爱和对自由极度的渴求。

群群子

“宠儿”这个标题其实我还挺好奇的，因为这是一个发生在黑奴身上的故事，女黑奴赛斯为了让自己的孩子不再像自己被奴役，被欺压，她选择杀死了自己的孩子。这里的“宠儿”她是赛斯的女儿，也是千千万万被白人伤害的黑人姑娘和黑人家庭，这些黑奴黑人他们世世代代受到奴隶制的压迫。他们曾经也是母亲的宠儿，但是由于残酷的黑奴制度，他们像牲畜物品一样被明码标价。所以我觉得宠儿这个名字其实挺讽刺的。