inside and outside symbol Flashcards
separated
the novel draws attention to the difference between “inside” and “outside”
sanitation: keeping the clean in and the dirty out
Jimmy’s mother’s job
to keep viruses out of human cells- to put “locks” on the doors of cell walls
Jimmy inside
the compounds are “inside”- inhabited by wealthy families employed by large research corporations
so Jimmy’s been “inside” his whole life, including in Crake’s airlocked “paradice”
pleebands
are “outside” - lawlessness, disease and poverty
contagion threatens to break into the body from air or water
outside stands
for fear, foreignness, dirtiness, poverty and desolation
after the plague
the inside and outside are no longer separated and the world becomes the outside
so outside stands for the breakdown of order - social, economic and cultural hierarchies are meaningless “outside”