Contents Abstract(Chinese).........................................................................................................................2 Abstract(English)......................................................................................................................3 1. Introduction................................................................................................................................4 Background of the Research......................................................................................................4 Purpose of the Research.............................................................................................................4 2. The Presentation of Deformed Maternal Love in Beloved....................................................5 Sethe's Love to Beloved............................................................................................................5 Beloved's Love to Sethe.............................................................................................................5 3. The Formation of Deformed maternal love.............................................................................5 Deprivation of Nurturing Nature...............................................................................................6 Abandonment of Sethe by Her Mother......................................................................................7 The Slavery Background on the Deformed Maternal Love.......................................................9 4. The Role of munity in Deformed Maternal Love Formation.............................9 The Two-Sidedness of munity...............................................................................10 The munity's Exclusion of Sethe...........................................................................11 The Significance of Sisterhood in munity.........................................