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Community in Beloved In Toni Morrison's Beloved, the community has a very significant and complex role. At times the community has a very helpful presence and at other times harsh and harmful. This is a community of former slaves in post-Civil War era; they have been deeply scarred emotionally, psychologically, and physically by slavery. And it is through the community's relationship with Baby Suggs and Sethe that Morrison demonstrates the slaves' emotional and psychological scars. The former slaves do not like pride because it is the common characteristic the dominant whites that had enslaved them. The community sees pride in Baby Suggs and Sethe and therefore feels justified in punishing them. And just as the community first punishes Sethe, Morrison makes emphasizes the point that they must unite to help her in the end by exorcizing the ghost from 124. The community serves a very critical and involved purpose, playing the...

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