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Essay Archive - 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 ....
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