Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Culture & Identity Research Topic

Post your Beloved research topic here.

34 comments:

  1. The era of time the novel is depicted in influences each characters behavior and shapes their identity; slavery being the culture

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  2. Sethe can be viewed as a slave. This is her identity. How does her identity depict how she carriers herself post slavery?

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  3. Sethe's character is multifaced; mother, murderer, and a slave.

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  4. How does Sethe talks about her culture and identity through out the story?

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  5. How are Sethe's characteristics of her identity representative of her culture?

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  6. How does Stamp Paid define his identity, before and after slavery? And why does changing his name give him this sense of freedom?

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  8. How does culture and identity affect the way the characters act?

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  9. Most of the characters had become use to the culture that came with being a slave, but adapted differently afterwards. How did each of them allow slavery to shape their identity in the future?

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  10. How did Sethe culture change her life?

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  11. How Sethe's past as a slave affect her physically and emotionally after slavery has been abolished?

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  12. How do the characters identfy their selves in the novel? How would you identify them? Explain

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  13. How does each character eventually find some type of identity in the novel?

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  14. What would Paul D say his main identity is and how has it shaped his life?

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  15. How does Sethe define her identity since she left sweet home?

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  16. How Sethe and her family's culture, as being African Americans, influenced their identity in society.

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  17. How did the culture and identity of 124 affect the community? Do you think this had an adverse effect on the common culture of a community to stick together?

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  18. How does Sethe culture identify her?

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  19. How did Sxethe's cutlture negatively affect her identity?

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  20. Because both Sethe and Paul D were slaves, they had no true identity while they were at Sweethome. The struggle to find their identities was tainted by the horrors they experienced while they were enslaved.

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  21. How does the culture and identity of the young affect the culture and identity of the old?

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  22. How does Sethe's identity change throughout the novel?

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  23. Who is Beloved and how does she change throughout the novel?

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  24. Explain how Sweet Home affected the culture and identities of its inhabitants.

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  25. What is the affect of slavery on identity?

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  26. How does Sethe identify herself throughout the novel?

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  27. The main culture in the story Beloved is based on the theme of slavery. How does this relate to each of the characters identity?

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  28. How does Sethe's culture/identity affect the identity of others around her: Paul D, Stamp Paid, Denver, Beloved.

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  29. Since the story is centered around slavery. Dicuss which characters identify the most with the events that took place during this time or compare those that choose not to identify with this.

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  30. Explain why Sethe tried to keep culture and identity away from Denver but was open to sharing it when Beloved came around.

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  31. How did Beloved suffer from identity when she came back?

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  32. What were the identities presented by Sethe, Paul D, Beloved, and Denver? Did their identities coincide with their culture?

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  33. How does being an ex-slave effect Sethe's mind frame and actions?

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  34. How does Sethe identity change with the novel and how it is showed.

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