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Essay Galaxy - Beloved and Don Quixote: Similarities in Themes and Characters
Beloved and Don Quixote: Similarities in Themes and Characters
On reading Beloved by Toni Morrison and Don Quixote by Kathy Acker,
there seem to be quite a few similarities in themes and characters contained in
these texts, the most prevalent of which seems to be of love and language as a
path to freedom. We see in Acker's Don Quixote the abortion she must have
before she embarks on a quest for true freedom, which is to love. Similarly, in
Morrison's Beloved, there is a kind abortion, the killing of Beloved by Sethe,
which results in and from the freedom that real love provides. And in both
texts, the characters are looking for answers and solutions in these "word-
shapes" called language.
In Acker's Don Quixote, the abortion with which the novel opens is a
precondition for surrendering the "constructed self." For Acker, the woman in....
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