Monday, April 9, 2012

We #3

Motifs
D-503 still describes peoples faces, "The triangle of her eyebrows grew sharper, darker." He seems to describe eyebrows in various past entries. I feel like because he describes them as "triangle" because a triangle in math is delta which represents change. And now he and I-330s and his relationship did change in a drastic way. No longer are they close, reason has overpowered him and he prefers to stay loyal to his government. The unknown variable X is again mentioned in the book and the meaning of it still doesn't really change.
Setting
Previously I think I mentioned or at least meant to say something about the weather. The government controls the weather to show that they have ultimate control even over nature. But now a lot of things are happening, one of course being the revolution that I-330 is a part of. D-503 begins his 29th journal with, " Strange: The barometer is falling, but there is still no wind. [...] Clouds are rushing madly. There are still few-separate jagged fragments." The government is losing control which can be shown through the weather. This image also contradicts with D-503 earlier observations of the "immaculate sky" that he describes in the beginning of the book. That is because at the beginning the government did have complete control but now it is being challenged with this revolution. The One State is still not fond of nature so when birds come in D-503 writes, "Their sharp, black, piercing  falling triangles filled the sky.", this is obviously not a good imagine because they do not like nature, which kind of the point of the Green Wall. It is there to keep nature out so when this happens and birds come in it creates chaos.
Language
D-503 is still describing himself as two versions of himself, "You know that it was the other I, the old one, and now..." His language of course is still revealing his internal conflict which is having a soul now, he has decided to end his conflict with an opertation. D-503 is starting to go back to his "old language" meaning not only mathematical but scientific and literal which supports his decision of staying loyal to the One State, "And my heart-an unpleasant, a painful compression, connected with a sense of pity. (But the heart is nothing but an ideal pump; compression, shrinkage, the sucking in of fluid by a pump are technical [...]) " I feel like even though D-503 has chosen a side, I guess you could say, he still knows within him that there are feelings, like he experienced but again, his logic and reasoning ultimatly won, as he goes through with the operation of removing his imagination and his soul.

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