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Jungle In most people, underneath all of our morals, our common sense, and our ability to control anything instinctive lies something called the id. Our id allows us to act on our carnality and true animalistic nature. It lies within everyone. It is part of our composition and nature and is included in all of human personality. This can sometimes be considered horrific and can come out at anytime. In Toni Morrison’s Beloved, this is described as a “jungle.” The white however, believed that this “jungle” was only applicable to dark skin. They believed it was impossible for them to possess this kind of trait. The jungle that they feared would emerge from blacks was something they wanted to destroy and cleanse society of. It is the white man's mission to tear down every leaf and destroy every tree of the jungle that they fear. In doing so the result is the full emergence of their own animalistic and savage qualities. This jungle is not only relevant within the story Beloved, but relevant in all the history of slavery, in the literature surrounding slavery, and racism in general. The “jungle” that Stam