The Walking Dead

The Theme of the walking dead is prevalent throughout Beloved which can be seen in the ghost of 124 and the arrival of Beloved after the ghost has been chased away. The idea that Beloved is the walking dead is inferred by the fact that she has the same name as Sethe's dead baby, she was in a dark place when she was small and was surrounded with dead people, and she has outburst of anger like the ghost of 124. But the idea of the walking dead also includes Sethe and Paul D because at times they are so crippled by their memories of slavery that they cut themselves off from the world. which reminds me of a quote "Living to being in the world." Sethe and Paul D are allowing their existence in an anti-black world become a determinism instead of a condition.