A circle that goes around and around within itself. Going in loops and loops non-stop. You think you move forward each time you make a change in that situation, look back and no change has been made, not even a step forward.
This is exactly what I realized when I read, Circularity in Toni Morrison's Beloved by Philip Page. This reading was in fact, one of the few readings where I realized that the events that we come across, we may also be in a "circularity" circle. The beginning of his argument presents an idea, that takes sometime to understand and grasp. It takes a long time because at first it seems as though the characters in Beloved, especially Sethe and Paul D are moving forward, sure there may be times where they both stop and everything seems to just stop and repeat itself over too many times. On the contrary even though this may happen at times, as a reader I feel that this is the reason why grasping the idea that the main characters are stuck in the same place and can't move forward is hard to understand.
In order for me to have a better understanding I broke down what I knee and related it to my personal life. What I noticed about Pages argument was that blood in the human body never stops circulating, unless something cuts it off. I then used this application to interpret what he was trying to say for Beloved and saw that it was the same concept. I then took a closer look and saw that the characters keep going in circles like blood because something is blocking them from seeing past it. What is keeping them in that loop is the horrific experiences that they had to go through when in slavery and the regret. With this I believe that we have to be able to forgive the past in order to move forward, but it is a long process.
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