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

Using “unheimlich” in your writing

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

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

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?

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)

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

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)

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,

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 pp248-256

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

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.

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)

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