摘要
托尼·莫里森的小说《宠儿》一直被评论家视为“黑人文学历史的里程碑”。这部小说中存在四组二元对立：人与鬼、反抗与压抑、黑人婚礼与白人婚礼、塞丝母爱的缺失与对子女的宠爱，由此可以分析得出：奴隶制社会以及塞丝本人性格中对自由和平等的追逐，使塞丝弑女成为必然。
The novel Beloved by Toni Morrison is regarded as the milestone of the history of black literature. This paper interprets Beloved from the perspective of binary opposition. By analyzing four pairs of binary oppositions in the novel, that is, human and ghost, rebellion and repression, the black＇s wedding and the white＇s wedding and Sethe＇s lack of motherhood and her love to her children, and it concludes it is slaveholding society and Sethe＇s pursuit of freedom and equality that result in the certainty of her infanticide.
