D that her love is very strong In Part One Ch she says Thin love ain t love at all This shows that Sethe thinks real love must be deep and powerful even if it leads to painful choices Her love drives her to do the unthinkable Past Trauma Sethe s own memories influence her decision At Sweet Home she was treated like an animal In Part One Ch she remembers They used cowhide on you And they took my milk Her milk meant for her baby was stolen This memory never leaves her It makes her believe her children must never face the same abuse The Infanticide Act Sethe succeeded in killing her baby girl The child was still very young only crawling This was the daughter later remembered as Beloved When the schoolteacher came to recapture her Sethe was filled with terror She believed slavery was worse than death In her desperation she tried to kill all of her children so they would never be taken back to Sweet Home She cut her baby s throat with a handsaw and blood covered the shed She even tried to harm the others At that moment Stamp Paid rushed in and managed to save Denver while the two boys escaped unharmed The act shocked the community very deeply People who once supported Sethe have now turned against her They felt horror and anger They believed she had gone too far They also turned away from Baby Suggs who was broken with grief and sorrow From that time Sethe lived in isolation The community avoided feared her and saw her as dangerous Isolation and Guilt After the killing Sethe lives alone with Denver The community refuses to help Baby Suggs dies in sorrow The house at becomes haunted by the angry ghost Sethe carries guilt but insists she acted out of love Morrison shows that slavery forced mothers into impossible choices Symbol of Slavery s Destruction Sethe s act is not simple murder It shows how slavery destroys family and humanity Her desperate choice reflects the system s cruelty She wants to be free but her past follows her The killing is both resistance and tragedy In short Sethe killed Beloved because she feared slavery more than death Her act was shaped by love trauma and desperation It remains one of Morrison s most powerful messages slavery could twist even a mother s love into horror