Scene Analysis
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
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through out the novel Zamayatin uses Teeth as a motif to express mainly primitiveness, particullarly unique to I-330. Zamayatin tends to describe I-330's teeth whenever she is doing something either divious, "ancient" or dangerous. I-330 describes the ancient house, "'This is my favorite...' and suddenly she seemed to catch herself. A bite-smile, white sharp teeth. 'I mean, to be exact, the most absurd of all their 'apartments''' (Zamyatin 27). by favoring this ancient house for whatever reason, I-330 sets herself apart from her society in which favoring an old house is considered silly since it is ancient. Teeth is typically associated with primitiveness in todays society, since man is said to have evolved beyond the need for large sharp teeth. by using teeth Zamayatin give I-330 a primitive attribute which is used in this particular quote to be relitive to her favoring of the ancient house.
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I like how you pushed the envolope. I'm not sure i agree a hundred percent but i when you talk about teeth and how they repersent a primative side of human this sharp teeth. But this could be argued the other way that the more sophisticated we have become the sharper our teeth have become. Someone could argue evolution and monkeys are herbavoirs with mostly flat teeth for chewing plants and as humans devolpe we devolped sharper teeth to meet our dominece of other species because we have become carivorers
i like your analysis, it seems to fit in with the story well. It also seems to tie into how D-503's hands represents his own primitiveness. Im also wondering if there are any other passages which also show this and support your thesis.
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