In her novel Beloved, Toni Morrison explores the paradoxical nature of love both as a dangerous presence that promises suffering and as a life-giving force that gives the strength to move forward; through the experiences of the fugitive slave Sethe. The dangerous aspect of love is revealed through Paul D and Ella's comments regarding Sethe's motherly love towards her children. Sethe's deep attachment to her children is deemed dangerous because of their social environment which evidently promises that a slave's loved one will be hurt. On the other hand, love is portrayed as a supporting force that allows Sethe to move forward with her life. All the devastating experiences Sethe endures don't matter because she has to live for her children. Although dangerous, Sethe's love finally emerges as the prevailing force that allows her to put the past behind her and move forward with her life. The dangerous aspect of Sethe's love is first established with Paul D's comments regarding her attachment to Denver. On page 54, when Sethe refuses to hear Paul D criticize Denver, she thinks: "Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a woman used to being a slave to love something so much was dangerous (...)" she believes Attachment of Sethe is dangerous because she believes that when "(...) they broke her back, or stuffed it in a cheap sack (...)" having such a strong love will prevent her from moving forward with her life. Paul D's observations indicate that a slave's loved one is evidently being taken away. Mothers are separated from their children, husbands from their wives, and entire families are destroyed; slaves are not given the right to claim their loved ones. After experiencing such atrocities, Paul D realizes that the deep love Sethe has for her daughter will only be… halfway through… denied and not conveyed. It reminds us of the inclination to forget the past and the impossibility of facing a silenced history. Morrison aims to ensure the sensitive and responsible transmission of a story of suffering and, to this end, his use of parallels between Paul D and Ella, symbolism and the use of charged language, explore the two aspects of love. The contrasting aspects come together in the end to emerge as a unified statement underlying the life-giving force of love. The powerful demonstration of the role of love in the characters' lives, the role it plays in moving them forward, is bound to increase the impact of the novel. As a universal concept, love provides the best device for communicating the atrocities that black slaves faced and serves Morrison's intention to ensure that the reader will never forget this shameful history..