This blog is going to be a bit of a ramble, but it’s relevant, I promise. I had a bit of an internal battle doing this project of finding biblical allusions in Beloved. I did not believe that there could be any biblical allusions worthy of being noted; I thought that it could possibly be counted as blasphemous. Taking the word of God and twisting it in such a distorted way so it would work for this assignment, but It turned out that there are some legitimate allusions. Lot’s wife, fire and brimstone, the horsemen, Romans 9:25, and the loaves and fishes are just some of the major and most obvious allusions. I had a poor perception of Toni Morrison, and still do for using the Gospel in such disturbing ways. Turning Jesus into a baby ghost come to life and getting into the wrong side of business with her step dad. Turning Mary into a deranged former slave who killed her daughter and who tried to kill her other children to save them from the life she had. Jesus and Mary are two people that Christians aspire to become like, but who aspires to become a manifested baby ghost or a murderous mother?
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