D-503 quote analysis Flashcards
I don’t want √−1! Take it out of me, this √−1
Context: As a child, D-503 is terrified by the concept of √-1, an imaginary number that contradicts his belief in a completely rational world governed by mathematics. This fear of the irrational, which he feels could exist within himself, persists into adulthood. When he falls in love with I-330 and acts irrationally, he views these actions as if done by someone else, showing his struggle to accept the irrational aspects of his personality.
symbolism: The use of √−1 as a symbol for the irrational or the aspects of human nature that cannot be quantified or controlled is a powerful literary device. It represents the conflict between individuality and conformity, emotion and logic, and the natural versus the constructed societal order.
“I was myself, a separate thing, a world; I stopped being a component.”
Context: I-330 takes D-503 to the world that lies beyond the Green Wall and the One State
“my own mother… would know me as… not a molecule of the One State.”
around middle of the novel:
“I can’t live without you, I don’t want to live without you.”
d talking to I, later in their relashionship
“The half-light of the rooms, blue, saffron-yellow, dark green Morocco, the Buddha’s golden smile, gleaming mirrors.”
the ancient house when they have already fromed their relashionship tat is not in lone with the satet, in the middle of the novel, writing tayle changed to cshow he chas chaned more into the emotions than logic
page 73
“Life is either blackless or whiteless” based on “logical premise.”
“I was myself, a separate thing, a world; I stopped being a component”.
“The facts are as follows.”
“I know we will win. Because reason should win.”
very last line
“There were two me’s. One was… Number D-503, and the other” had “hairy paws.”
middle of novel
There were clouds and cobwebs and a cross, some kind of four-pawed X, inside me
problably near the end
