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Beloved And Don Quixote: Similarities In Themes And Characters
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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 .... Middle of Essay .... had to name herself. When a doctor sticks a steel catheter into
you while you're lying on your back and you to; finally, blessedly, you let go
of your mind. Letting go of your mind is dying. She needed a new life. She
had to be named" (Don Quixote 9-10). And she must name herself for a man –
become a man – before the nobility and the dangers of her ordeals will be
esteemed. She is to be a knight on a noble quest to love "someone other than
herself" and thus to right all wrongs and to be truly free. In another of
Acker's works she writes: "Having an abortion was obviously just like getting
fucked. If we closed our eyes and spread our leg ....
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