Volume : III, Issue : IX, September - 2014

Love and Legacy: Toni Morrison‘s Song of Solomon

Dr. Bh. V. N. Lakshmi

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Love and hatred are perennial themes for every writer worth his ink and they equally fascinated the readers down the ages. What is love?, why one loves? and why one loves? are the questions that battered the illiant minds for a long time. For Shakespeare ‘love is not time’s fool,’ for John Keats love is the ultimate truth as he said, ‘Beauty is truth, truth is beauty’ and for M. K. Gandhi love is God. Love, Truth and God serve as synonyms and whoever wanted to pen something, cannot escape them. Love or its absence constitutes the whole of our world literature. Toni Morrison is no exception. Her master work Song of Solomon is perhaps the greatest novel ever written by Afro–American which has a close affinity to Alex Haley’s Roots. The protagonist, Milkman, in a transcendental stage finds himself metamorphosed – discovers his identity, ancestral legacy and capacity for love and joy and learns to fly without ever leaving the ground.

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Dr. Bh.V.N.Lakshmi Love and Legacy: Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 3, Issue : 9 September 2014

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