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.
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16 years ago
i understand what you are trying to say, i sorta agree. but your writen logic is kind of difficult to follow. i thought you jumped to the conclusion kinda fast.
ReplyDeletedoes D-503 truly want to kill all the irrational numbers? isnt he compared to [root] -1 and doesnt it evolve in him and make him think differently than the rest of society? I think the conclusion you are jumping to is not completely true for the entire book. It may have been true in the beginning, but what about after I-330 reveals to D-503 all the negative aspects of The One State?
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