When reading Beloved by Toni Morrison and Don Quixote by Kathy Acker, there seem to be many similarities in the themes and characters contained in these texts, including the more widespread seems to be love and language as the path to freedom. We see in Acker's Don Quixote the abortion she must undergo before embarking on the quest for true freedom, which is to love. Likewise, in Morrison's Beloved there is a kind abortion, Sethe's murder of Beloved, which results from the freedom that true love provides. And in both texts, characters search for answers and solutions in these “word forms” called language. In Acker's Don Quixote, the abortion with which the novel opens is a precondition for the abandonment of the "constructed self." For Acker, the woman in position on the abortion table on which a team of doctors and nurses work represents, in an ultimate sense, the woman as a constructed object. The only hope is to somehow take control, to overthrow the identity constructed to be able to name herself: “She had to name herself. When a doctor inserts a steel catheter into you while you lie on your back and you do it; Fortunately, you let go of your mind. To abandon your mind is to die. She needed a new life. » (Don Quixote 9-10). And she must call herself a man – become a man – before the nobility and dangers of her trials can be appreciated. She must be a knight on a noble quest to love “someone other than herself” and thus right all wrongs and be truly free. In another work by Acker, she writes: “Abortion was obviously like getting fucked. we closed our eyes and spread our legs, we would be taken care of. They undressed us. They gave us white sheets...... middle of paper ...... end of text with a. The community comes into contact with a “language of its own,” while Acker’s protagonist subverts the texts to find or create something equally “primal.” Don Quixote is much more easily associated with the ghost of Beloved. They are both looking for a language they are looking for. can use, understand and know with the “word forms” given to them. They are both searching for a love and a freedom that is not a product of “slavery”. it is not the product of an “abortion.” They are both children and adults, trying to understand, and neither of them asks for or offers forgiveness. Works Cited: Cervantes, Miguel De. Don Quixote. Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. Ed Mack, Maynard et al. WW Norton and Co. New York, NY. 1992. Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York, Penguin Books USA Inc., 1988.