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Webb 1 Charles L. Webb December 14, 2002 Beloved's Mythical Concept of Spiritualism Life is full of surprises in which people are forced to seek their inner spiritual self for guidance. Toni Morrison makes this evident in Beloved as she tells the story of Seth and her struggles with slavery and the fight to see that her children do not face the same way of life she did. The story is set in the 19th century in which Morrison identifies and flirts with the fertile ground of the spiritualism movement. She recognizes that African-American women, such as those in the world of her novel, saw the principles of spiritualism as nothing new. They had been richly present all along as an important path to understanding life and death, as a way of making sense of the universe and understanding one's place in it. Beloved intrigued me to discuss the engagement with...

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