Dystopian Journal #3

Setting: Throughout the novel the society begins to evolve as imagination becomes more relevvant in the citizens. Through the Operation, the government tries to rid their perfect society of rebellion by removing the imagiination from citizens. This shows the progression of control that the government has from the beginning of the novel to the end of a novel. In the beginning of the novel, the use of a society based on definite answers to control the citizens to accept the government's answers as what is right. But as those answers continue to not please I-330 and her followers rebellion becomes an infection, in the government's eyes that is, that I-330 helps develop in D-503 as he begins to gain a soul. The operation was designed to remove the imagination from the citizens within the society to make a happier society. But by removing imagination from the society the thought of rebellion is extinguished giving the government more control over the society. "A mercilessly sharp black triangle on the white: 'What? You don't want happiness?'"(162)

Motifs: In the final third of the novel,an interesting motif of hair followed that of the facial features in part two. The wall had just been broken down and people who live outside of the wall are described as hairy people. When D-503 is questioning the government and contemplating rebellion with I-330, he reaches out to grab an object and decries his hand as hairy and how the hand was the square root of -1 inside of him and he wanted nothing more than to get rid of This hair or the square root of -1. In this context the hair represents freedom, the want for freedom, or rebellion. Through this bodily feature the author Conveys that the want to rebel or the want for freedom is normal however you must tread carefully because it can leand to something out of control. "But what you didn't know[...] And we, MEMPHI, we want..." (144)

Language: The final third contained significantly less dialogue than in the previous 2/3 of the book while having longer and a larger quantity of descriptive paragraphs describing a character's thoughts, actions or a major event that occurred during the book. Through this method I believe that the author is trying to pull the reader's attention away from character interaction and push the attention toward different elements of the book. For example in the end of the book D-503 is describing his interaction with the benefactor that caused the death of I-330. During this monologue the author tries to show the effect of government on citizens. "the next day[...] because reason should win." (202-203)

Cultural Connections: I feel like in a way this can be connected back to the society that we live in today. Because even though the United States stands for freedom and liberty, new laws can and have been created to Limit the freedom of the citizens in the united states. For example the espionage and sedition acts during worked war 1 were created to prevent the citizens from talking against the government during a time of war which completely goes against the 1st amendment right granted to the citizens of the united states.