memory

Harper experiences ‘a sort of paralysis of fear’ in castle Drac because of dangers (paralysis/avoidance)

Sethe ‘I don’t go inside’ because of her trauma (paralysis/avoidance)

‘there were hairs in the center of the palm’ like Nosferatu (the past in the physical? present)

Sethe ‘if a house burns down, it’s gone, but the place - the picture of it - stays’ (the past in the physical? present)

‘my revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side’ (Dracula aims to bring past into present) (colonisation vs defence of time)

but for Sethe ‘the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay’ (colonisation vs defence of time)

in castle drac fabrics are ‘centuries old though in excellent order’ and London’s ‘closed gates of heavy old oak and iron’ (setting as a gatekeeper for the past)

Sweet home’s trees ‘the sycamores beat out the children every time’ and ‘she could not forgive her memory for that’ (setting as a gatekeeper for the past)

Drac himself is ‘of an old family’ (requires band of light to engage in old ideas to understand him) (engaging with the past/memory to understand the present)

‘it was time to lay it all down’ (Sethe must accept ideas of past to understand life now after Paul D and Beloved’s arrivals) (engaging with the past/memory to understand the present)

something abt it being written in an epistolary style (form and narrative structure)

Beloved written w non-linear, fragmented narrative (form and narrative structure)

Mina’s hypnosis ‘I can hear the waves lapping against the ship, and the water rushing by’ (visions/irrational connection)

Sethe and ‘the little antelope’ (how she describes the baby during river crossing), ‘Sethe could not image she had never seen one’ (visions/irrational connection)