but familiar Her name is the same as the word on Sethe s baby s tombstone Slowly it becomes clear she is the murdered child She demands Sethe s full attention Beloved represents how the past refuses to die The Ghost as Memory Beloved is more than a spirit She is a symbol of memory that cannot be forgotten Sethe sees her daughter and says in Part Two Ch Beloved she my daughter She mine This shows Sethe s deep guilt and love The supernatural here is a metaphor for trauma It forces Sethe to face her painful choice The Exorcism Scene The community also meets the supernatural When thirty women gather at they sing and pray Their voices grow stronger In that moment Beloved disappears The narrator says It was not a story to pass on Part Three Ch This shows that memory and haunting can only be eased when the community joins together The exorcism scene blends spiritual faith with social healing The Supernatural as Ambiguity Morrison never explains Beloved clearly Is she really a ghost Or just a lost girl The text remains uncertain Paul D feels uneasy Denver feels joy and Sethe feels love The ghost is both real and symbolic This ambiguity makes readers think deeply It shows how the supernatural is tied to human memory and history Impact on the Characters The supernatural changes every character Sethe is trapped by Beloved s demands Denver grows brave by facing Beloved s power Paul D feels his tobacco tin heart break open under her pressure that tobacco tin buried in his chest where a red heart used to be Part One Ch The ghost forces them to face themselves After Beloved disappears Paul D tells Sethe You your best thing Sethe You are This moment shows healing and hope Supernatural and Slavery The ghost also connects to slavery Beloved is not only Sethe s child She stands for the many lives lost in slavery She is the past that never rests The ghost shows that slavery s pain cannot stay hidden Collective Memory The haunting is not just personal Beloved carries the voices of dead slaves She speaks of a dark place under water full of suffering This shows slavery is not one family s pain but the pain of a people Water Imagery Beloved s link with water adds mystery She rises from the river like Denver was once born near it Water here means both life and death It connects Beloved to birth memory and return In short Morrison uses supernatural elements in Beloved with great purpose Ghosts hauntings and disappearances are not simple fantasies They are memory history and trauma made alive They remind us that slavery never truly ended in hearts and minds The supernatural shows that the past must be faced before healing can begin