OPPORTUNITYISNOWWHERE is to BELOVED as...

The difficulty in relating my big question to this book is that it is so supernatural. I do not know how to account for ghosts and ethereal beings into my thinking here, yet if I take it as the widely unpopular view of Beloved being a product of Sethe and then taking that further into Sethe and Beloved being one and the same body but with competeing concsiousnesses, I can maybe work with that. On another note, Denver certainly expresses acting of her own intentions. She wants to help/save her mother. The way she does that is through the community, which if considering the societal hive mind I have been making mention of in my other posts, the community does not serve this role for Denver. Thus, the community can be the "good guys." Denver's "society" is 124 and its inhabitants, which she resists and then moves on off the porch as an individual. Sweet! Now, back to Sethe. This is complicated. Sethe seems stained by the past. She wants to go back to part of it; the life she had with Halle at Sweet Home, but then again she does not because of the slavery and the schoolteacher. This conflict of weighing whether or not the decisions she made were for better or for worse seems to be Sethe's conflict through the book. Viewing Beloved as a psychological enemy, Sethe is fighting against herself in trying to decide what "herself" is and what her intentions are. Paul D also searches for "self" in the sense of the fight between what and whether or not he is animalistic or human. So, for that purpose, I do not know if they apply to my question. I mean, how can one argue if they are working for or against their own intentions if they themselves do not know what they are? Still, I do suppose they both make amends right at the end and find love. So, technically they do act with individual interests in mind, but then there are no societal interests to consider acting against them at that point. Thinking about Stamp Paid and his questioning of his own intentions as well when he spreads gossip, I feel now that I may have to reword my question to include psychological barriers within "own personal intentions." I do not know. Perhaps, this just is not a question that can accurately address this topic, but I definitely feel that the closest thing in this novel to the question would be the fight to find out what one's "own personal intentions" are.