KEY QUOTES - REPRESSION + DESIRE (DRACULA V BELOVED)

- Repression of memories, history e.g Paul D - Perseveration via births - Unconsented sex adjacent - Sexual desires - Desire for knowledge - Desire for blood

• Repression of memories, repression of history as a whole shown by forgetting about Beloved at the end

  • (Part 3, chap 28) “This is not a ____ to ____ on… Beloved.” suggests the only way to confront legacy of slavery = tell it’s story, not forget it 

  • Paul D and Denver “You think [she was] your _____?...At times…I think she was _____” discussing what is Beloved highlights her as a metaphor

  • “Bad _____” “They _____ her” collective amnesia surrounding slavery

• “This is not a story to pass on… Beloved.”

• “You think [she was] your sister?...At times…I think she was more”

• “Bad dream” “They forgot her”

• Preservation (desire to be known, stories to be orally told etc.)

  • “You _____? Say miss _____ Denver”

“You hear? Say miss Amy Denver”

• Mina’s baby 

  • “______ years ago… boy’s _______…same day as Quincey[‘s death]...our brave friend’s _____ has ______ into him”

  • Chapter 13; “If _____ can go on ______ men like that, she will be a _____” Quincey = American, who kills Dracula sacrificing himself - Representation of trad masculinity

• “Seven years ago… boy’s birthday…same day as Quincey[‘s death]...our brave friend’s spirit has passed into him”

• “If America can go on breeding men like that, she will be a power”

• Paul D’s characterisation - repression of memories

  • (part 2, chapter 24); “His ______ _____, blown open, spilled contents that floated freely and made him their ____ and _____” - all memories of Sweet Home = rushing back to him (vulnerability)

  • (part 1, chap 3); “Turned away…______ to ______ more about it, but ___ talk put him ____” when Sethe opens about her going to jail after murder

  • “____ heart. ___ heart” Beloved’s rape forces him to face his past

• “His tobacco tin, blown open, spilled contents that floated freely and made him their play and prey”

• “Turned away…wanted to know more about it, but jail talk put him back”

• “Red heart. Red heart”

• Harker and the 3 women:

  • “Deliberate ________ which was both ______ and ______”

“Deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive”

• Paul D’s rape (part 1, chap 11) 

  • “I _____ you to _____ me on the ______ part…No”

  • “____ heart. ____ heart” Beloved’s rape forces him to face his past

• “I want you to touch me on the inside part…No”

• “Red heart. Red heart”

• Lucy’s transformation inflicted by Dracula, sexual undertones

  • Chapter 8; “Long, _____ gasps…______ and sighing”

"Long, heavy gasps... moaning and sighing."

• Paul D’s dislike, perhaps desire?

  • “Beloved was _____ and Paul D. ____ ____ it” sexual domination = threatening

“Beloved was shining and Paul D. didn’t like it”

• Desire to understand the unthinkable, Dracula, actions of feeding on blood is an animalistic desire 

  • Chap 15; “Surely there must be some _____ explanation of all these _______ things”

  • Chap 21; “eyes flamed red with ________ passion” when drinking from Mina

• “Surely there must be some rational explanation of all these mysterious things”

• “eyes flamed red with  devilish passion”

• Denver’s desire for stories about herself and Beloved’s desire to be told stories as a form of feeding

  • (Part 1, chap 8) “____ me…She ______ told me all of it…____ me”

  • “Denver ______, Beloved ______”

•  “Tell me…She never told me all of it…Tell me”

• “Denver spoke, Beloved listened”