The language in the second third of the dystopian, We undergoes a subtle change. The novel is focusing more on the internal conflict that D-503 is experiencing. He keeps contemplating what his real self is because in his dreams he is someone different. I believe his struggle is illuminated through the varied sentence structure, "The lecture. How strange that the voice coming from the gleaming apparatus is not metallic, as usual, but somehow soft, furry, mossy. A woman's voice. I imagine her as she must have been once upon a time: tiny, a little bent hook of an old woman, like the one at the Ancient House" (109). The syntax of this passage is complex. Zamyatin uses anywhere from sentences that are two words long to sentences that are twenty eight words long. This syntax represents D-503's struggle in finding his identity because his imagination creates two different perceptions of himself. D-503 repeatedly thinks about the imaginary number. I believe he is fascinated by imaginary numbers because of his interest in his own imagination. I noticed that Zamyatin still uses similes to describe the conflict D-503 is having, "All that had happened yesterday whirled like a hurricane within me..." (92). We see that Zamyatin uses figurative language, typically similes, when D-503 is talking about something of importance.
The motif of the color blue is further developed in the second third of the novel. It still serves the same function of representing peace and calmness for D-503, "My thoughts tick quietly, with metallic clarity. An unseen aero carries me off into the blue heights of my beloved abstractions" (115). D-503 associates blue with "beloved abstractions", which has a serene connotation. This helps to show that D-503 has not completely changed, but that his identity still has not fully developed. I feel like colors do not serve as big of a purpose as they did in the first third of the novel, though because the other colors are not mentioned as much as previously. I noticed that the outside of One-State is mentioned frequently throughout this section. "I raised my hand, the yellow eyes blinked, backed away, and disappeared among the greenery. The paltry creature! What absurdity-that he could possibly be happier than we are! Happier than I, perhaps; but I am only an exception, I am sick" (93). D-503 starts to question what it would be like to be outside of the confinement of One-State. He ponders whether the society he lives in is better than being out of One-State.
More culture connections became prominent in the second third of We. Many times the characters, such as D-503, refer back to what the ancients did. Also, other characters look down upon the ancients because they feel like the society that they are currently living in is much improved. The color red is used to allude communism in the novel, "The dark-red walls of the ancient house were already before me" (93). I didn't realize this until I was a little further into the book. My knowledge on the setting of the first third of the novel was limited because I hadn't read the entire book so I wasn't entirely sure what it was. Now that I am in the heart of the novel I can see that this book is set in One-state that has no wildlife or nature of any sort, "Man ceased to be a savage only when we had built the Green Wall, when had isolated our perfect mechanical world from the irrational, hideous world of trees, birds, animals..."(93). The Green Wall is a barrier set to purposely not let any of nature in because it infringes on the "perfect" society of One-state. Interestingly enough, D-503 sees a creature outside the green wall and wonders if that creature is happier than his society.
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