Seucrity Quotes

I'm thinking of opening with one of these qoutes tell me what you think if you get a chance


H. L. Mencken:
The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.

Germaine Greer:
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.


Benjamin Franklin:
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security

James Russell Lowell:
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.


"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
Benjamin Franklin quotes

Revised thesis from school today

Zamyatin uses the symbols of glass and the great operation asa well as the conflict between the Mephi and the One State to war agains the resriction of civil liberties in times of conflict for security revealin that people need to balance the protection of their civil liberties with security

Outline done

I hope it is ok. I finshed it before i saw your commet will. We can always work on it and change it later as long as we get credit for having it done

Thesis for outline

Thesis: Zamyatin uses the symbols of glass, the great operation and the Table of Hours in WE to warn against the suspension of civil liberties in times of conflict for security revealing that people need to balance the protection of their civil liberties with security.

Outline

Please post ideas and symbols you think we should use also qoutes.

Thesis: Zamyatin use symbols in WE to warn against the suspension of civil liberties in times of conflict for security revealing that people need to balance the protection of their civil liberties with security.

Symbols to use.

Great Operation- symbolic to the restriction of though. Removing the ability to disagree with the goverment

Glass- Symbolic of constant survallience, lack of privacy for protection

Table of hours, pink slips- constant survallience by knowing where people are, controling their actions by controling how they spend their time and where. To stop meeting against gov

Green wall- Suspension of ability to explore other options better possibiltiys and extended form of propagnda it removes all out side information that make people question something better takes away all other options forces people to live one style of life.

Dystopian Journal: Topic C

How powerful/believable is the author’s vision?
What hope or alternative does the author give us?
Zamyatin gives us hope in the possibility to live outside the society as in We people are able to live outside the wall to avoid the society and people from in the society are able to escape out of it to the world outside the wall. Zamyatin gives us hope or an alternative by the option of separating yourself from society to avoid it controlling you. This option seems bleak but logical if you take yourself out of society you take yourself out of its control and influence.
Zamyatins vision is really powerful but it is not really believable people are to unwilling to allow class structure to be done away with. People like feeling superior to each other because it makes them confident in whom they are because they believe that they are better than someone else. Zamyatin’s visioin while not very believable is very powerful because of the ever advancement of technology and the risk it places on people. The farther technology advances the more control it has on people either their dependence or it us to watch and control them such as in the use of video surveillance and GPS tracking. This powerful vision of using technology for complete control such as in the “Great Operation” may not be realistic in its open use on everyone but the possibility of technology reaching a stage of something that extreme is realistic in our future.

Word Count 251

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Figures of Speech
Personification/ metaphor.
"I had to do something to expunge, to drown out that damned[root] -1" (Zamyatin 41).This metaphor is an extended metaphor for the book. The only thing that make math imperfect is irrational numbers. It is these numbers that are despised and hated by D-503. It is the same with the One State. Their are a few people who will not comform to the society and they belive that they need to be wiped out and destroyed. It is the same with D-503 he wishs to destroy and kill all irrational numbers. To "Drown the out" this act of killing a non living thing. Zamyatin use irrational numbers in We as an extended metaphor the society.

Structure
Through Zamyatin's use of structure, he is able to show how when one's thoughts and actions are oppressed by society, they will soon attemplt to escape this control, eventually leading them to happiness. This can not only be seen in We, but also with previous revolutions in history.

Patterns- Motif
through out the novel Zamayatin uses Teeth as a motif to express mainly primitiveness, particullarly unique to I-330. Zamayatin tends to describe I-330's teeth whenever she is doing something either divious, "ancient" or dangerous. I-330 describes the ancient house, "'This is my favorite...' and suddenly she seemed to catch herself. A bite-smile, white sharp teeth. 'I mean, to be exact, the most absurd of all their 'apartments''' (Zamyatin 27). by favoring this ancient house for whatever reason, I-330 sets herself apart from her society in which favoring an old house is considered silly since it is ancient. Teeth is typically associated with primitiveness in todays society, since man is said to have evolved beyond the need for large sharp teeth. by using teeth Zamayatin give I-330 a primitive attribute which is used in this particular quote to be relitive to her favoring of the ancient house.

Imagery- clouds, thunder storm
During the book, Zamyatin uses the imagery of the weather to convey some of his ideas more effectively. Many times throughout the book, Zamyatin uses the imagery of clouds to show how "perfect" the society depicted in We is, and how they have completely pushed nature out of their lives. During the beginning of the book, whenever D-503 looked up into the sky, there were no clouds. "But the sky! Blue, unblemished by a single cloud [...] I love - I am certain I can safely say, we love - only such a sterile, immaculate sky" (Zamyatin 3). He believed that clouds were disorderly and absurd and did not belong in a perfect society. They were something the ancients saw as being beautiful and splendid, but D-503 did not understand why. This passage also tells us that the society D-503 lives in is very concerned of everything that seems to be unorderly; a reason to why they shut nature out of their world inside The Green Wall.Another moment in the book where Zamyatin uses the imagery of weather is after The Green Wall has been destroyed. After it is blown up, a storm englufs The One State and the disorderly clouds start to rush in. This rush of nature coming into the society shows how people began to change and behave more like The Ancients had. They could finally experience freedom, something which the weather is able to portray in We.

Sentences
Through Zamyatin's use of sentence structure and ellipses, he is able to portray how individual thought is being constrained by The One State. Many tiems when D-503 is thinking, his thoughts abruptly end and almost never finish. This is used to show how when a controlling factor is added to ones life, they are unable to think for themselves and are unable to break apart from this control to develop independant thoughts and ideas.

Thesis

I think we need to put down our thesis from the blue sheets (the ones about sentence structure and word choice). I think that is where we get our thesis from and then we pick the best one but i'm not sure i've posted on here blog asking for some clarity but i haven't heard anything back. So i think we just do the blue sheets and get thesis from those. I think we only had three more of them to do and i thought we handed them out before class ended on friday but i'm not sure.

Thesis for WE

We need to get our thesis by monday i think so just add comments to this post on our thesis statments for our 8 things

Propagnda

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This propagnda is effect of because it plays on alredy exixting emotioins of the audience that it is aimed at and it is not over the top in it's message. This poster brings up the hatred that Pearl Harbor created and it use this to it advantage. This poster also doesn't make the viewer feel muniulated but rather it birng back emotions and help remind a person of them and strengthen them. This propagnda seems very effective and it is derected to U.S citizens after Pearl Harbor.

Figurative language of irational numbers

Personification/ metaphor.

"I had to do something to expunge, to drown out that damned[root] -1" (Zamyatin 41).

This metaphor is an extended metaphor for the book. The only thing that make math imperfect is irrational numbers. It is these numbers that are despised and hated by D-503. It is the same with the One State. Their are a few people who will not comform to the society and they belive that they need to be wiped out and destroyed. It is the same with D-503 he wishs to destroy and kill all irrational numbers. To "Drown the out" this act of killing a non living thing. Zamyatin use irrational numbers in We as an extended metaphor the society.

Dystopian #2

Topic B-

I-330 is victimized by society because she is oppressed. She has a free spirit that is kept hidden by the society because of their surveillance and inability to hide really anything from anyone else. I-330 is also victimized in the way she cannot expresser herself in public. I-330 must conform to society and wear the blue overalls of the One State.
I-330 resists this oppression and the society of the One State by her sanctuary of the Ancient house. She resist the One State by when she goes there, she dress in old style cloths that the One States despises she breaks the conformity. She also resists in a more mental approach. I-330 drinks alcohol when she is at the ancient house and she smokes. This resistance in her mind and in private is what helps keep her free spirit from being completely destroyed.
This resistance is not successful in the traditional sense of helping to destroy the government but it is very successful in the mental resistance. I-330 becomes more resistant to the rules of the One State the more times she breaks the rules at the ancient house. First she goes there with D-503 when they don’t have a coupon to be together and the drinking of alcohol and the smoking. She later becomes more resistant to the expectations of society when she begins to not use her and have D-503 fake that they are together for some unknown purpose. I-330 gradually becomes more rebellious throughout the book and the things she does get worse and worse when it comes to breaking the society’s rules and this is a successful resistance. This gradual building of confidence against the society.

Word count- 281

Dystopian #1

Topic A
“I know that the letter, which she had read, still had to pass to the Office of the Guardians (I believe there is no need to explain to you this natural procedure), and would reach me not later than twelve. But I was disturbed by that little smile; the ink drop muddied my transparent solution. So much, in fact, that later, at the Intergral construction site, I could not concentrate and even made a mistake in my calculation, which had never happened to me before” (Zamyatin 51).
The society in WE has absolutely no privacy except for when they are having sex and they can close their blinds. In this passage D-503 talks about the complicated task that it takes just to get a letter. He knows he has a letter. The lady tells him this but he knows a lot of other people must read it and examine it before he gets it. This control of privacy by the society helps them maintain control of the society and find any person who might threaten their ways. The society uses this Bureaucratic control of their lives to maintain complete control. A huge part of the bureaucratic control is the table of hours. The society is also unique because they believe so strongly in math and logic. This belief in logic helps create a sense that they are infallible. D-503 expresses his belief that he is infallible through his surprise to making a mistake in his calculations. This makes this society unique because each person believes that they are infallible and that not just their leader is infallible. In dystopian novel like 1984 all the people of the society believe Big Brother is infallible and that they must listen to him because he is always right. In WE all the people of the society believe that they can’t be wrong in their work. This makes them much happier.

Word count: 230

New Thesis

Camus use the interations of character with the legal system in The Stranger to show that people have a tendency to judge not only the actions but the emotional responses of others. Revealing that the legal system has flaws.

Stranger Journal #9

What conclusion does Meursault come to at the end of the text? Does Camus want the reader to come to the same conclusion? Do you believe Meursault is happier or less happy at the end of the novel?

Meursault comes to the conclusion that. Other people shape who you are through how they describe you. You are a bad person because people define you as a bad person. And with death coming you are free from how people define you, it now longer matters. Life is made from the definitions of people and that it is worth living to have meaning.

I believe that Camus want the reader to come to the same conclusion. That if no one defines what is good and bad or anything in life then how can one form to it so it is nessesary for societiy to shape people and views.

Meursault is happier in the end. Meursaults get over the fact that death is then end but rather a liberator of all the judgment and conflicts of life and makes you understand that life was worth it. But your own life should matter to you and not to others.

Stranger Journal #8

Thesis:

Camus use the symbols of the sun, the sky, and the foil of Marie to Meursault to reveal how the social expectations of life conflict with what is best for a person revealing that each person needs to set their own social expectations.

Stranger Journal #7

Why does Camus create a part 1 and a part 2? Identify parallel ideas or scenes that occur between the two parts. What does Camus accomplish by comparing ideas between the two parts?

There is parallel ideas in the first part to the second part with the sky. When Meursault is thinking the sky reflects different colors and when Meursault is in the cell thinking about telling the chaplin he doesn't want to see him he looks up at the sky and reflcts on the color. All the colors what are deamed peaceful colors. Green, gold, blue. Camus also takes Meursaults seperation from humans to another level. First it is just emotion and then it is physical seperation.

Camus accomplishs a more dynamic character who changes quicker in the second part. Meursault changes a lot more in the second part when he is by himself. He is less willing to listen to other people. In the first part he listens to people even if its not what he wants to do or cares for doing. When the derector in the begining say do you want to see your mom he does even though he really doesn't. But later on with the warden and the chaplin he doesn't listen to them at all and refuse to even make an attempt.