Afeisha Parris – ENG 3407, Gothic Lit, Fall 2019

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“Not at Sweet home, my niggers is men every one of em. Bought em thataway, raised em that way. Men every one”

Paul D remembers when Mr Garner would say this about his slaves. Mr Garner treated the slaves at Sweet Home with respect and trust. He even allowed them to work for extra money and use a gun. Most importantly he taught them how to read all things that a regular or free “man” were given. Other slave owners did not grant their slaves such privileges and so Mr Garner regarded himself as a God sent. This all went away after Mr Garner dies and so the author reminds us that even though Mr Garner treated his slaves differently they were still slaves, tied to the white man’s good will. Regardless of man or woman they were lacking free will and determination.

Paul D’s expulsion of the ghost

God damn it! Hush up!” Paul D was shouting, falling reaching for the anchor. “Leave the place alone! Get the hell out!”

Paul D first encounters the ghost when he walked into “the door straight into a pool of red undulating light that locked him where he stood.” the ghost intensify when he touches Sethe’s beast hence its outburst. The ghost becomes violent, shaking the entire house. Paul D tries to fight back, shouting loudly and smashing up parts of the house in the process. The rumbling stops the ghost’s presence can no longer be felt, Paul D had vanquished the ghost or so they thought. Paul D was the only man left from “Sweet Home” and the ghost felt as though he may be there to take Sethe and Denver’s attention. Paul D’s presence somehow allows this breakdown or violent out burst by the ghost its seems to intensify when men are around, only men have left because of if. When Paul D asks why they don’t leave, Sethe is adamant she will not run from anything ever. Paul D was meant to be portrayed as a holy savior by getting rid of the ghost.

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“There were the Great Old Ones that had filtered down from the stars when earth was young-the beings whose substance an alien evolution had shaped and whose powers were such a this planet had never bred. And to think that only the day before Danforth and I had actually looked upon fragments of their millennially fossilized substance….and that poor Lake and his party had seen their complete outlines…”

This paragraph connects to Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” and his description of the origins of count Dracula. Dracula was the one that fought against the Turks in a bloody battle with great strength and tenacity brining victory to his people. Such strength and power was not seen by anyone and perceived as supernatural given to him by a higher being.

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Oh, my husband! my husband, indeed I would have spared you such a thought had there been another way; but I pray that God may not have treasured your wild words, except as the heart-broken wail of a very loving and sorely stricken man. Oh, God, let these poor white hairs go in evidence of what he has suffered, who all his life has done no wrong, and on whom so many sorrows have come.”

In this scene Mina pleads to God to forgive Johnathan for the manner in which he curses against Dracula and his hopes to bring him death. She hopes that his words are not taken by God figuratively but as the words of a man who has seen evil and felt pain for his wife. Johnathan has been a saint and if wasn’t for the ill doing of Dracula he would never speak in such a manner. She wants him to understand that even when he destroyed old Lucy, he killed a corrupt creature only release “purity” of new Lucy into a better place(heaven). He might even have to bring the same faith to her, but he must do it with compassion and not hate. So that he might be able to be called upon by God on Judgement Day and she can be released as “new Mina”. In spite of Dracula’s possession of Mina she continues to shows mercy towards him in that good will ultimately over come evil even after having witnessed the end result of Lucy, truly a woman of faith.

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When shelly writes How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.

In the “uncanny” Freud suggests the idea of arousing horror and fear yet familiarizing all aspects of the known. When presented with the familiar we should not show fear. In other words experiences, faces, places or things we’ve seen before will likely draw minimal reaction or emotions because they are known to us. This monster Frankenstein had created bore familiar features of a human but still presented a contributing horror. The projection of self has been overcome by fear. There’s unfounding horror is the human like features of the creature vs the unknown. Frankenstein is a scientist, a logical thinker he knows the structure and make up of human body. Yet the monster Frankenstein created looked like him but still wasn’t him and that frightened him, this projection of self had been overcome by fear. Such facial and structural details was so overwhelming he began to question himself as to the actual creature he had created. This must be a fragment of his imagination. Obviously Frankenstein knows what he’s created he will soon come to the realization of his creation.

Author: Afeisha Parris

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Paul D’s expulsion of the ghost

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