Biblical/Novel relationships within the Characters in " Song
Every now and again a book comes along that has a soul. This soul can thrive within the characters or the rich content it displays. The " Song of Solomon" has soul, plain and simple. Toni Morrison knitted a soul into the backbone of this novel with her mastery of imagery. Every sentence and scene has the potential to hold a powerful symbol or meaning needing to be discovered by the reader. Almost all of these images root from Toni's opinions of black depression yet they still very in how they are shown. The bulk of the images relate to the Old Testament of the bible. These images exist in a similarity or theme that is shared by the bible version and the novel version of the character in mention.It should be obvious to anyone reading this book that Toni Morrison knows a great deal about the Old Testament. This is easily supported by the fact that most of her characters all share names with religious figures. In this paper six of them will be described. This will be done by first summarizing the excerpt from the bible then an explanation of the relationship. The list starts with Hagar. We know Hagar as the jealous murderous lover in the book but look how she compares to the bible's Hagar. Hagar was Sarah's Egyptian maid. God had
As you can see Toni put much thought into all of her characters. Magdelene can be related to her bible image because the exorcism of the demons is similar to Macon telling about Corinthians relationship with Porter. As with Hagar and Sarah the relationships have similarities but they are not directly parallel. Now a simpler yet still quite possible idea is that Pilate's possession of her father's hanging body is synonymous with the Hanging body of Jesus. Matthew 27, 28 Mark 15,16 Luke 8,24 John 19,20. Pilate discovered Jesus was from Galilee and sent him to Herod Antipas, Galilean ruler. She was the first to know of the Resurrection. The apostle Paul was the chief missionary of the early church. Once again it is not direct but easily understood. Jewish leaders took Jesus before Pilate. Boaz and Ruth married and became the great-grandparents of King David. They said Jesus claimed to be The Messiah (King of Jews) and charged him with treason. Now once again it is not a direct relationship between characters as Lena was exorcised nor did she have a secret rervealed. The question that remains is why didn't Toni call Hagar, Sarah.
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