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The Definers and the Defined: Social Structure in Beloved
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In Toni Morrison’s Beloved, one character, Schoolteacher, chastises a slave for not following but opposing his definition, and he calls himself the definer making definitions. In his view, all definitions belong to the definers and not the defined. Conventional social order has always been established by the definers in this way. Their definitions, based on binary logic at their convenience, have established all things with a fixed frame that requires the victims who are the defined. Even the defined unconsciously adjust themselves within a false system. Morrison thus points to the contradictions inherent in a system that is both dependent on and excludes otherness. Beloved subverts the discourses of history by pointing out the contradictions that underscore them. Although some whites possessed flexible minds against the fixed definition, real change for the future is possible only when the defined escape from fixed definition and find their autonomy through different codes from those of the definers. Beloved thus highlights the importance of confronting, reclaiming and transforming history for a hopeful future.
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In Toni Morrison’s Beloved, one character, Schoolteacher, chastises a slave for not following but opposing his definition, and he calls himself the definer making definitions. In his view, all definitions belong to the definers and not the defined. Conventional social order has always been established by the definers in this way. Their definitions, based on binary logic at their convenience, have established all things with a fixed frame that requires the victims who are the defined. Even the defined unconsciously adjust themselves within a false system. Morrison thus points to the contradictions inherent in a system that is both dependent on and excludes otherness. Beloved subverts the discourses of history by pointing out the contradictions that underscore them. Although some whites possessed flexible minds against the fixed definition, real change for the future is possible only when the defined escape from fixed definition and find their autonomy through different codes from those of the definers. Beloved thus highlights the importance of confronting, reclaiming and transforming history for a hopeful future.
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