Marxist Critical Lens Experts: 1

For my Critical Lens, I had read the article titled: To Be Loved: Amy Denver and Human Need: Bridges to Understanding in Toni Morrison's "Beloved. From what I understand about this article is that there are many different arguments about the internal messages that are trying to be conveyed by Toni Morrison in beloved. What the author has mainly essentially argued is that there are several things that Morrison is trying to convey is that: There are many different Biblical References, That oppression affects just more than one group of people, and that there are good souls no matter the color of the person's skin, or their gender. In terms of the Biblical References, the Author mentions the part where Amy washes Sethe's feet, relating that part to where Jesus washes the feet of his twelve disciples in the bible, the Author uses this inference to make a relation that there are biblical themes throughout the book, and that this is just one example of that. For the case of oppression, the Author not only references Sethe's struggle when she was an escaped slave, but also mentions Amy Denver, an indentured servant who was kept by her master, using this that it was not just African Americans that were being oppressed, and that the only people who were not oppressed were those who were wealthy, white men. Last but not least the last themes that was being pointed out was the point that there are always good people, again, tying back to Amy Denver; as she was someone who had stood by Sethe's side, even during the harshest of times, stating that if it was not for Amy, Sethe would not have a story to tell. I do agree with these several messages and themes that are being pointed out, but I would also like to mention that there was no real marxist feel in the author's analysis of Beloved, she did not point out any marxist characteristics of the book, and neither did the author or I make the same arguments about our interpretations of the text.