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The Beetle Book 3 - Coggle Diagram
The Beetle
Book 3
The erotic life of racism: or, sex lives can be racist:
White men and women's bodies are in danger
Foreign magic vs western science, reminiscent of Dracula
"The power of the eye. They held me enchained, helpless, spellbound... Their gaze was unfaltering" (6).
Reminiscent of Lucy and Mina's slow transformation and being in hypnotic state.
Obedience in hypnotism. Holt's body is besmirched, being only naked with nothing but a cloak.
white women's tears
Her fear is shown when she hears the buzzing of the beetle in her room, tearing off her clothes
"I had hopes that by shutting out the light, I might regain my senses. That in the darkness I might have opportunity for sane reflection. But I had made a grievous error. I had exchanged bad for worse. The darkness lend added terrors" (206).
Perspectives
Marjorie's perspective sheds some light on her thoughts on past events in the previous narration. She expresses the ridiculousness of Atherton's proposal. Her tone is mostly in admiration, specifically towards Lessingham. Her tone also shows her stammering at times, expressing her intense fear for the Beetle.
"Sydney Atherton has asked me to be his wife. It is not only annoying;worse, it is absurd" (69).
"I sprang up, striking out, blindly, wildly, right and left, hitting nothing,- the buzzing always came form a point at which, at the moment, I was not aiming. I tore off my clothes... it was a veritable holocaust of dainty garments" (75).
Holt's narration is rather straightforward and descriptive towards foreign character's that aren't white. His tone is mostly scared.
"It was impossible such a creature could be feminine" (6).
"The decrepitude of age had given place to something very like the fire of youth" (9).
Atherton's views are very biased towards Lessingham's relationship with Marjorie but shares political and scientific views. His tone is usually jealous concerning Marjorie but scholarly when he's involved with his antics in the lab.
"That took me aback. I had my suspicions that Paul Lessingham was more with Marjorie than he had any right to be, but I had never supposed that she could see anything desirable in a stick of a man like that" (23).
"They contain neither dynamite, nor cordite, nor anything of the kind yet, given a fair field and no favour, they'll work more mischief than all the explosives man has fashioned" (43).
"Terror by night and terror by day"
Lessingham is haunted by the Beetle
Marjorie hears the buzzing of the Beetle at times
Holt is constantly being hypnotized
Atherton experienced a member of Isis in front of him, but isn't necessarily scared by these events. He more or less experiences the same sounds of buzzing a seeing Beetle's but isn't paralyzed with fear like Paul, Marjorie or Holt