Homosexuality In Toni Morrison's Beloved

Beloved is also equated with vampire or incubus. Though, she is not the male spirit impregnating the slumbering women, “but the vampire figure in Beloved enacts as incestuous, homosexual desire,” as has been established by P.E. Barnett.15 Beloved has come back for Sethe. She wants to take vengeance on her for her premature murder. She drains Sethe of her vitality. First, in the clearing, she plants a deadly kiss over Sethe’s neck, then later She enacts as if she is a just born child. Sethe is ready to fulfil all her desires. Whatever Beloved wants is given to her such as the best chair, the best food and so on. And when Sethe runs out of things, Beloved invented desire. Later, one notices Beloved with protruding belly and Sethe becoming thinner