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.
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16 years ago
i completely agree. your analysis was clear and easy to follow. it would have been nice to find another example, but whatever. nice ^_^
ReplyDeleteLike the clear concisse anyalsis. The weather is a really powerful image in the book and is well used by Zamyatin. but think about this. Why did Zamyatin make the weather so perfect? So people like rain and view it as nurturing so why have all weather other then the sun be seen as bad?
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