Beloved by Toni Morrison is a neo-slave narrative about how a former slave, Sethe, lives with her daughter Denver in a haunted house. Then Paul D, a former slave, arrives and lives with Sethe and exorcises the ghost of the house. Everything seems to be normal until a young woman emerges from the water called Beloved and begins to live with Sethe and then mysterious things begin to happen due to a horrible past. In Beloved, Toni Morrison uses symbols and motifs using biblical allusions, religion, the importance of names, and what it meant to be free from slavery. Morrison uses biblical allusions in chapter 16 and already sets the mood for the rest of the film. chapter. For example, “When the four horsemen arrived—a teacher, a nephew, a slave catcher, and a sheriff—the house on Bluestone Road was so quiet that they thought it was too late” (p. 147). The four horsemen are in the book of revelations of the Bible, each horseman is supposed to bring a wrath that would cause destruction in the world. The four horsemen in Beloved set the tone because they should bring destruction and at that moment Sethe tried to kill her children along with herself. The knights lead Sethe to do the most extreme thing: kill her children and then herself. Then the knights saw that whole bloody mess and Sethe in the middle of it, they just left her because they thought she was crazy. The knights create a dark and dark atmosphere throughout due to the fact that Sethe kills Beloved and that the knights want to bring Sethe and her children back into slavery where they escaped from. Sethe, trying to escape slavery through death, decides she wants to slaughter all her children. Morrison uses biblical allusions to support the super… middle of paper… completely when she heard her heartbeat and realized that this was the feeling she gets when she is free and can live her life however she wants. Toni Morrison used a biblical allusion in the four horsemen and in relating the Beloved to Jesus. Morrison was using religion in a sense of self-expression. Morrison used the motif of names and their importance, and what it meant and felt like to be free from slavery. Morrison uses this type of figurative language to express the life that African Americans had while in slavery or out of slavery. Everything Toni Morrison used in her neo-slave narrative was to emphasize the world of slaves at the time and how they suffered but continued to move on with their lives. The hardships, the cruelty of the bonds of slavery and even after the discrimination after the Civil War and the unjust and minimal rights. Works Cited"beloved" by toni morrison