Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Innocence and Experience Research Topic

Post your Beloved research topic here.

34 comments:

  1. How Beloved goes back and forth between the innocence of being a baby, to the experience of her death and afterlife.

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  2. Paul D states in chapter 4, "For a used to be slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous especially if its her children she had settled on to love" this quote relates to the novel as a whole and is the cause for Sethes actions,Paul D, and Stamp. My topic will to show how this quote relates to the characters and embodies both love and hate.

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  3. How experience impinge on innocence in Denver’s life?

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  4. Beloved comes into the story as innoccent until the experience of Sethe, Denver and Paul D teach her the ways of life.

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  5. How Sethe's pass effected her actions of innocence and experience in her present and how it effected the people around her.

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  6. How does Beloved oscillate betwween innocence and experience?

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  7. What are some examples of innocence and experience in the story?

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  8. How does Sethe's experience affect her inability to have compassion on her family, and even recognize her own daughter.

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  9. How does Beloved goes back and forth from innocence and experience?

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  10. Beloved came into the story innocent. Give some examples of Beloved shifting from innocence to experience?

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  11. How all the chracters dealt with the transition of innocence to experienc throughout the novel?

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  12. How does Sethe oscillate between innocence and experience throughout the book?

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  13. In what ways does Denver become forced into experience when Beloved comes to stay.

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  14. Give examples how one of the characters go back and forward between innocence and experience.

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  15. How does the innocence of Beloved's initial actions foreshadow her future experience?

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  16. How does Paul D and Sethe oscillating experiences between love and hate affect their relationship?

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  17. How does Sethe's innocence somewhat justify her act of killing her child?? What experience did she get from this act??

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  18. How does the "supernatural" depict characters throughout the novel.

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  19. How Denver uses her connection with Beloved to become a more experienced child.

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  20. How does Sethe travel back and forth between Innocence and experience in the novel?

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  21. Beloved died at a young age but yet in spirit and human form she was capable of forcing Paul D to have sex with her, cause Bulgar and Howard to leave the house etc. Explain and expand on this

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  22. Explain Sethe's transition from innocence to experience and explain the point at which she reached experience.

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  23. Explain how Sethe used her experience of Sweet Home and what happened there to explain her innocence.

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  24. How does both Sethe and Beloved oscillate between innocence and experience?

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  25. How does Sethe's loss of innocence effect those around her? How does her experience become a hindrance?

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  26. How does Denver's seemingly "absence of innocence" affect the innocence of Sethe, Beloved, and other characters.

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  27. How Sethe fluctuates between acknowledging her past regarding Beloved and coming to the realization of what she has done...

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  28. Explain how Sethe's experience affects the innocence of Denver and Beloved and even herself.

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  29. How does Sethe learn from killing her baby?

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  30. Would you consider any of the characters to be innocent? If so, state who and why.

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  31. The affects that the spirit and Paul D being in the house had on Sethe and Denver's innocence and/or experience.

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  32. how did Sethe's experience impede on her daughters innocence?

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  33. Now that Sethe has grown as a person, do you believe that she would still kill her children to protect them?

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  34. How is innocence and experience acknowledged in the novel? Which characters show the strongest relationship when it comes to both innocence and experience.

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