Destructive love in the song of Solomon by Toni MorrisonWhen we think that an emotion embodies everything that brings happiness, serenity, effervescence and even benevolence, Although its all-encompassing nature may be believed to allow generalizations and existence virtually everywhere, surprisingly, directly outside the realm covered by love lies the very antithesis of love: hatred, which, beneath all its forms, has the potential to bring pain and destruction. Isn't it precisely for this reason, this confusion, that suicide bombings and other acts of violence and devastation are committed... in the name of love? In Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, the reader experiences the thin line between love and hate in many different forms and on many different levels - to the extent that the boundary between two begins to fade and become indistinguishable. Seen through Ruth's incestuous love, Milkman and Hagar's relationship, and Guitar's love for African Americans, if love causes destruction, this emotion is not true love; in essence, such destructive qualities of "love" only appear when the illusion of love is discovered and reality characterizes the emotion as being a parasite of love, such as obsession or infatuation, something that resembles love but simply inflicts pain on the lover. her “daddy’s girl”, there is no doubt that a form of love exists between Ruth Dead and Dr. Foster; however, such love is not truly love because, as evidenced in Ruth's later life, the filial relationship is more like an emotional dependence that Ruth took for granted (67). The great emotional schism within her that is the result of her father's death leaves Ruth dysfunctional: she is unable to express her emotions towards others, especially her family. Instead, ...... middle of paper ...... Sunday man. Instead, he became his cause, and the person behind that cause was lost. In Song of Solomon, through many different types of love—Ruth's incestuous love, Milkman and Hagar's romantic love, and Guitar's love for his race—Toni Morrison not only demonstrates readiness with which love will transform into a devastating and destructive force, but also the immediacy with which it will do so. Morrison tackles the amorphous and resilient human emotion of love, not to glorify the joyous feelings it can provoke, but to warn readers of the volatile nature of love. But at the same time, it gives the reader a clear idea of ​​what love is not. Morrison explicitly states that true love is not destructive. In essence, it illustrates that if "love" is destructive, it is most likely a mutation of love, something impure, because love is all that is pure and true..