Identify whom you believe Beloved is and explain why.

Please write a short essay–about 750 words–in which you respond to the following: Beloved has been interpreted to be the ghost of Sethe’s “crawling already” daughter, or that “she is an actual survivor from the Middle Passage crouching in the hold of a ship next to dying bodies, bodies thrown overboard, or that she is a sexually abused woman kept prisoner all her life by a white man….Sethe interprets this to mean that Beloved “had been locked up by some whiteman for his own purposes, and never let out the door.” Did this white man teach Beloved to dance the two-step and call her, as she says to Sethe, “beloved in the dark and bitch in the light?” Your assignment is to identify whom you believe Beloved is and explain why. Please be sure to be specific and support your analysis with documented references to the text of Beloved.