The mother-daughter relationship in Beloved by Toni Morrison In Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, the author creates a mother-daughter relationship in which the mother Sethe, out of love , kills his daughter Beloved to free her and protect her from the harshness of slavery. Because of this, the little ghost of her deceased daughter haunts her conscience and is later resurrected to further torment Sethe because of her act of love. From the moment she cuts her newborn daughter's throat until the end of the novel, we are associated with the justifications for Sethe's actions and understand Morrison's use of this conflict to recreate history by conveying the harshness of slavery in this time of time. The sources of this intricate mother-daughter relationship arise from Sethe's undying love for her children, a love so strong that it leads her to kill her two-year-old daughter and, in turn, cause Beloved to haunt her with a “powerful spell” which parallels the powerful love Sethe has for her (4). The complexity of this conflict increases as the reader takes i...