Abstract:

Toni Morrison is considered to be one of the most famous and excellent writers in the world. She is one of the most representative writers in contemporary African American literature. Her masterpiece—Beloved has shocked the whole world, which helps her win the Pulitzer Prize. At the same time Beloved is recognized as an eternal classic in contemporary literature. This book is adapted from real events in the 19th century: Nineteen-year-old Sethe is a pregnant slave mother. She tried her best to escape from Sweet Home. Shocking but true she slashed the throat of the two- year-old baby girl –her daughter. After the slave owner captured her a few days later, she was put in prison because of her evil behavior. Eighteen years later, Beloved as a baby ghost come back and to take revenge and obtain love from her mother. This paper is intended to analyze the maternal love, its different developing stages and its different performances. On the basis of revealing the mother-daughter relationship, the paper aims to analyze the causes of the deformed motherhood in Beloved. They are Sethe’s traumatic memory about her mother, Sethe’s experience in “sweet home”, and the influence of the black’s trauma on motherhood.

Key words: Beloved; Maternal love; complexity

摘要：

托尼•莫尔森被公认为是世界最著名、最优秀的作家之一。她是美国当代最具有代表性的非裔女作家之一.她的代表作《宠儿》震惊了整个世界，并且帮助她赢得了普利策奖.与此同时《宠儿》现已成为当代文学史上不朽的经典。小说改编于19世纪一个真实的历史事件:主要讲述了19岁的女黑奴塞丝怀着身孕千辛万苦的从甜蜜之家逃出。让人吃惊的是，她毅然杀死了自己刚刚满2岁的幼女宠儿。几天后奴隶主把她抓回并送进了监狱。18年后被她杀死的女婴还魂归来，加倍向母亲报复并索取着缺失的母爱。本论文旨在通过对《宠儿》中母爱的解读，分析主人公的母爱的不同发展阶段，及其在各个阶段不同的表现形式，在揭示母女关系的基础上, 剖析造成畸形母爱的三种原因,分别是塞斯关于母亲伤痛的回忆和塞斯在甜蜜之家的经历, 以及黑人创伤对母爱的影响。

关键词：宠儿; 母爱；复杂性