1. L.O: To compare the use of Setting in Beloved and Dracula
Dracula is the unheimlich spirit who

2. Using “unheimlich” in your writing

5. (L3C) In two groups: Brainstorm the settings
Dracula cc
Beloved cc
Which settings would be most useful to compare?

6. (L3E) Brainstorm the settings
Dracula cc
Beloved cc
Which settings would be most useful to compare?

7. Brainstorm the settings in Beloved or Dracula
Castle
Transylvania
Borgo Pass
Whitby Abbey
Purfleet, London
Piccadilly
Hampstead
Asylum
Graveyard
Ship
Lucy’s House
Sweet Home
The Loft
The Ohio River (crossing to safety)
The boat where Denver is born
124 Bluestone Road
The Clearing
The church where Paul D sleeps
The woodshed
The schoolhouse
The restaurant
Which settings would be most useful to compare?

8. Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts make use of significant locations in their texts. In your answer you must consider the following:
the writers’ methods links between the texts the relevance of contextual factors.
(Total for Question 10 = 44 marks)

9. Indicative content
comparisons of scene setting: Harker’s journey to Count Dracula’s castle
comparison of the ways writers might choose to use a few significant settings: 124 in Beloved or a range of locations (e.g Wilde and Stoker) and the reasons for these choices
effects of the locations on the characters: Harker’s reactions to Count Dracula’s castle;
ways writers use settings to indicate social class, wealth, etc, and their significance; what these details tell us about society at the time
writers’ choices about the periods in which the chosen texts are set and how they affect the ways we respond to settings: mid-19th century USA in Beloved (and the significance of the historical and social context),
comparisons of the ways modern readers might react to the settings in each
Use of the house/castle/religious buildings
How genre affects settings

10. Everything must be pinned onto the Supernatural
Setting: Often in a Catholic European country. Includes an oppressive ruin or castle in a wild country
Story features: a heroine of sensitivity; her impetuous lover; a tyrannical older man (“with a piercing gaze”) who is intent on imprisonment, rape and murder
There is a great interest in: religious institutions, sleeplike or trancelike states, subterranean spaces and live burial; doubles; the damaging effect of guilt and the discovery of family ties;
Hints of incest
The form: discontinuous and involuted
There are likely to be unnatural echoes or silences
Emphasis placed on the difficulties of communication
Liminal states
Transgression
Unfinished business
Fears about the unknown (death)

11. Words to focus on: Transgression: Unheimlich The outside
Liminal spaces
Borgo Pass, forbidden rooms:
The castle, 124, Sweet Home, Westenra House
The woodshed, the cemetery
Water, sea, rivers, boats,

12. Focusing on key passages
the writers’ methods
links between the texts
the relevance of contextual factors.
Dracula: The arrival of the “foreign schooner”
Pp74-77
“Then without warning…” to “into harbour in the storm”.
Dracula: The Captain’s log Pp79-82
Beloved: Beloved’s monologues pp

13. Beloved Dracula First person Disjointed, lyrical Confusion Storm Death
Newspaper article
Captain’s log
Tension: non-chronological
Storm
Confusion
Death
Boat
Matter of fact
Fragmented
First person
Third person
Liminal
Transgression
Transformation
Significance of Whitby (port, produces jet)
Beloved
First person
Disjointed, lyrical
Confusion
Storm
Death
Mystery
Ambiguity
Key motifs
A hot thing
Round basket
White pointed teeth
Clouds
Diamond ear rings
The bridge
The little hill
An iron circle
A join
The face

14. Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts create a sense of fear in their works. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.
Fear is an essential element of the supernatural genre. Although Toni Morrison and Bram Stoker tell very different stories set in different cultures and countries, the fears that they explore are connected. Ostensibly, the two stories seem to bear no similarities: Beloved explores the legacy of slavery in the US through the ghost of a murdered child, while Dracula is a more conventional tale of a vampire who ventures to a new land to replenish his vampire family. The fears, expressed or repressed by the characters are, to a greater or lesser degree, shared in both novels; whether it is the fear of the unknown, of death, of the stranger (or other), of women or the supernatural itself.

15. Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts make use of significant locations in their texts. In your answer you must consider the following:
the writers’ methods links between the texts the relevance of contextual factors.
(Total for Question 10 = 44 marks)

16. Indicative content
comparisons of scene setting: Harker’s journey to Count Dracula’s castle
comparison of the ways writers might choose to use a few significant settings: 124 in Beloved or a range of locations (e.g Wilde and Stoker) and the reasons for these choices
effects of the locations on the characters: Harker’s reactions to Count Dracula’s castle;
ways writers use settings to indicate social class, wealth, etc, and their significance; what these details tell us about society at the time
writers’ choices about the periods in which the chosen texts are set and how they affect the ways we respond to settings: mid-19th century USA in Beloved (and the significance of the historical and social context),
comparisons of the ways modern readers might react to the settings in each
Use of the house/castle/religious buildings
How genre affects settings