Abstract:
This thesis explores the complicated images of the trees in Beloved. The archetypal image of the tree as tree of life reflect the pastoral "beauty" in the south by its regenerative power which assists the black slaves to gain physical flight from the slavery and the former slaves from the psychological grip of the slavery past. The "strange fruit" of the southern trees and the tree-like scar in Sethe's back reveals the "pain" in the slavery south. Beloved's seemingly perverse image as the residue of the slavery past aggravates this "pain", but her foils to a revived tree stump representing the tree of history and to the metamorphosing tree-god Dionysus help the former …
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