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Diocesan Boys' School IB English Lit HL IOP - Symbolic Architecture in We by Yevgeny Zamayatin

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The document describes the architecture and structures within the One State. It outlines the strict conformity and control imposed on citizens known as Ciphers. Key points include: 1) Architecture is designed to demonstrate power and spread propaganda, including glass auditoriums where Ciphers are forced to listen to talks. 2) Ciphers lives are highly regulated, with numbers assigned to their living spaces and repetition in their daily routines. 3) Colors are seen as distracting, and there is rejection of the past in favor of reliance on mathematics and logic. Strict obedience to the State is demanded.

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Symbolic Architecture @ We ? Chief Architect, One State
@ We ?
Industrial Zone Residential Zone The Cube @ We ? Prehistoric Museum + Ancient House The Integral (under construction) Government facilities Auditoriums 1301-1500 Accumulator Auditoriums 1-1300
Marvels of the One State
Cube Plaza. Sixty-six powerful concentric circles: the stands. And sixty-six rows: quiet, bright faces and eyes re?ecting the radiance of the One State. P. 41
Sixty-six rows
Sixty-six rows Name of Allah in Abjad numerals
Sixty-six rows Name of Allah in Abjad numerals Cube-shaped All 12 sides of equal length, whole
Sixty-six rows Name of Allah in Abjad numerals Cube-shaped All 12 sides of equal length, whole Worship and execution Sense of fear towards the State and the Benefactor
And, ?uttering in an invisible wind, the criminal walked, slowly C a step up, and another, and then a pace, the last of his life C and he, with his face to the sky, his head thrown back, stood on his very own ?nal plot. P. 43
Height
Height Creating fear
2 ? Government buildings
A glass room, full of golden fog. Glass ceilings, colored bottles, jars. Wires. Bluish sparks inside tubes. P. 64
Bluish sparks, golden fog, colored bottles D 503s rare experience with color, sense of misery
3 ? Propaganda in Action
All those who are able are required to create treatises, epics, manifestos, odes, or any other composition addressing the beauty and majesty of the One State. These works will be the ?rst cargo of the Integral P. 3
Spreading of propaganda through literature Internally: the ciphers Externally: where the Integral reaches
The auditorium. An enormous, sun- saturated hemisphere of glass expanses. Circular rows of noble, spherical, smoothly sheared heads. P. 16
Glass structured The focus is on the entire state but not what is on the stage
Glass structured The focus is on the entire state but not what is on the stage Enclosed area for forced propaganda Ciphers are forced to listen to talks held in the auditoriums
Glass structured The focus is on the entire state but not what is on the stage Enclosed area for forced propaganda Prison? Ciphers are forced to listen to talks held in the auditoriums
At the end of the avenue, where the Accumulator Tower was sounding threateningly, we came upon a quadrilateral: guards at the front, behind and on the sides; three ciphers in unifs in the middle with their golden badges already removed C and everything was terrifyingly clear P. 110
At the end of the avenue, where the Accumulator Tower was sounding threateningly, we came upon a quadrilateral: guards at the front, behind Detached and on the sides; three ciphers in unifs in the middle with their golden badges already removed C and everything was terrifyingly clear P. 110
At the end of the avenue, where the Accumulator Tower was sounding threateningly, we came upon a quadrilateral: guards at the front, behind Detached and on the sides; three ciphers in unifs in Symbol of power the middle with their golden badges already removed C and everything was terrifyingly clear P. 110
At the end of the avenue, where the Accumulator Tower was sounding threateningly, we came upon a quadrilateral: guards at the front, behind Detached and on the sides; three ciphers in unifs in Symbol of power the middle with their golden badges already removed C and everything was terrifyingly Symbol of fear clear P. 110
4 ? Ciphers daily lives
Numbers on the door: 320, 326330, yes! ? ? P. 192 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 2 ? ? ? 1 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
?A ? ? ? ? B ? ? YO ? ? V ? ? ZH ? ?L ? ? G ? ? Z ? ? ? ?D ? ?I ? ?N ? ?Y ? ? ? 2S2 ? ? K ? ? ?P ? 1S1 ? ? ? T ? ? SHCH ? ? U ? ? R ? ?-?\ ? ?F ? ?Y ? ? KH ? ? ? ?TS ? ? E ? ?CH ? ? YU ? ? SH ? ?YA ?
[Rs room] was as if C well, everything was exactly like mine: the Table, the glass of the chairs, table, closet, and bed. P. 38
Conformity Equality
The pipes of the Music Factory rang out the March harmoniously C the everyday March. What indescribable charm C this everydayness, repetitiveness, this re?ectivity! P. 123
Repetition
Repetition Lack of creativity Over-reliance on logic and science
5 ? Ciphers Personal Hours
I walked on foot along the X axis (Fifty-ninth avenue) and the origin of the coordinates. / [] I purposefully chose to walk, not along the hypotenuse, but along the two perpendiculars. And here I was on the second perpendicular: a section of the circular street at the foot of the Green Wall. P. 82
Roads in straight lines Belief to mathematics
Not long ago I had to calculate the curvature of a new model of street diaphragm (now these elegantly decorated diaphragms are on every avenue, recording street conversations for the Bureau of Guardians). And I remember: each was a concave, pink, quivering membrane; they were strange organisms, made up of only one organ C an ear. P. 48
Monitoring of the ciphers
The glimmering of mirrors, gloomy closets, intolerably multi-colored sofas, a vast ?replace, and a mahogany bed. The only evidence of our contemporary, excellent, transparent, and eternal glass was in their pathetic, fragile, mini-quadrilateral windows. P. 26
Amid the multicolored noise that sti?es the logical process of thought: the red, the green, the bronze- yellow, the white, the orange colors P. 152
Colors are distracting to ciphers!
Colors are distracting to ciphers! Rejection to the past Belief that the States way is the only correct way
6 ? Recap
Demonstrate power and authority Spread propaganda Show conformity and allegiance Rejection to nature & past Reliance of mathematics
The End. Thanks! ?
References ? Aichberger, ?Markus. ?yellow ?window. ?Photograph. ?Flickr. ?Yahoo!, ?10 ?Oct ?2008. ?Web. ?1 ?Jan ?2013. ?<h}p://www.?ickr.com/ photos/sliceo?ife/2932452978/> ? Carver, ?Jack. ?Street ?life ?2. ?Photograph. ?Flickr. ?Yahoo!, ?12 ?Dec ?2011. ?Web. ?1 ?Jan ?2013. ?<h}p://www.?ickr.com/photos/ jackcarver/6512669801/> ? Leung, ?Dennis. ?G11 ?Leaders ?2012-?\13 ?The ?Serious ?Part ?(To ?be ?con?nued). ?Photograph. ?Facebook. ?Facebook, ?29 ?Sept ?2012. ?Web. ? 1 ?Jan ?2013. ?<h}ps://www.facebook.com/photo.php??id=10151177923697300&set=a. 10151176938842300.467744.738637299&type=3&theater> ? Liquid|||. ?Lab`s ?Instruments. ?Photograph. ?Flickr. ?Yahoo!, ?4 ?Aug ?2009. ?Web. ?1 ?Jan ?2013. ?<h}p://www.?ickr.com/photos/ liquidms/3789966959/> ? Powers, ?Robert. ?Aerial ?south ?side. ?Photograph. ?Flickr. ?Yahoo!, ?28 ?Dec ?2008. ?Web. ?1 ?Jan ?2013. ?<h}p://www.?ickr.com/photos/ repowers/3163617435/> ? Zamya?n, ?Yevgeny. ?We. ?New ?York: ?The ?Modern ?Library. ?2006. ?Print. ?

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Diocesan Boys' School IB English Lit HL IOP - Symbolic Architecture in We by Yevgeny Zamayatin

  • 1. Symbolic Architecture @ We ? Chief Architect, One State
  • 3. Industrial Zone Residential Zone The Cube @ We ? Prehistoric Museum + Ancient House The Integral (under construction) Government facilities Auditoriums 1301-1500 Accumulator Auditoriums 1-1300
  • 4. Marvels of the One State
  • 5. Cube Plaza. Sixty-six powerful concentric circles: the stands. And sixty-six rows: quiet, bright faces and eyes re?ecting the radiance of the One State. P. 41
  • 7. Sixty-six rows Name of Allah in Abjad numerals
  • 8. Sixty-six rows Name of Allah in Abjad numerals Cube-shaped All 12 sides of equal length, whole
  • 9. Sixty-six rows Name of Allah in Abjad numerals Cube-shaped All 12 sides of equal length, whole Worship and execution Sense of fear towards the State and the Benefactor
  • 10. And, ?uttering in an invisible wind, the criminal walked, slowly C a step up, and another, and then a pace, the last of his life C and he, with his face to the sky, his head thrown back, stood on his very own ?nal plot. P. 43
  • 13. 2 ? Government buildings
  • 14. A glass room, full of golden fog. Glass ceilings, colored bottles, jars. Wires. Bluish sparks inside tubes. P. 64
  • 15. Bluish sparks, golden fog, colored bottles D 503s rare experience with color, sense of misery
  • 17. All those who are able are required to create treatises, epics, manifestos, odes, or any other composition addressing the beauty and majesty of the One State. These works will be the ?rst cargo of the Integral P. 3
  • 18. Spreading of propaganda through literature Internally: the ciphers Externally: where the Integral reaches
  • 19. The auditorium. An enormous, sun- saturated hemisphere of glass expanses. Circular rows of noble, spherical, smoothly sheared heads. P. 16
  • 20. Glass structured The focus is on the entire state but not what is on the stage
  • 21. Glass structured The focus is on the entire state but not what is on the stage Enclosed area for forced propaganda Ciphers are forced to listen to talks held in the auditoriums
  • 22. Glass structured The focus is on the entire state but not what is on the stage Enclosed area for forced propaganda Prison? Ciphers are forced to listen to talks held in the auditoriums
  • 23. At the end of the avenue, where the Accumulator Tower was sounding threateningly, we came upon a quadrilateral: guards at the front, behind and on the sides; three ciphers in unifs in the middle with their golden badges already removed C and everything was terrifyingly clear P. 110
  • 24. At the end of the avenue, where the Accumulator Tower was sounding threateningly, we came upon a quadrilateral: guards at the front, behind Detached and on the sides; three ciphers in unifs in the middle with their golden badges already removed C and everything was terrifyingly clear P. 110
  • 25. At the end of the avenue, where the Accumulator Tower was sounding threateningly, we came upon a quadrilateral: guards at the front, behind Detached and on the sides; three ciphers in unifs in Symbol of power the middle with their golden badges already removed C and everything was terrifyingly clear P. 110
  • 26. At the end of the avenue, where the Accumulator Tower was sounding threateningly, we came upon a quadrilateral: guards at the front, behind Detached and on the sides; three ciphers in unifs in Symbol of power the middle with their golden badges already removed C and everything was terrifyingly Symbol of fear clear P. 110
  • 28. Numbers on the door: 320, 326330, yes! ? ? P. 192 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 2 ? ? ? 1 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
  • 29. ?A ? ? ? ? B ? ? YO ? ? V ? ? ZH ? ?L ? ? G ? ? Z ? ? ? ?D ? ?I ? ?N ? ?Y ? ? ? 2S2 ? ? K ? ? ?P ? 1S1 ? ? ? T ? ? SHCH ? ? U ? ? R ? ?-?\ ? ?F ? ?Y ? ? KH ? ? ? ?TS ? ? E ? ?CH ? ? YU ? ? SH ? ?YA ?
  • 30. [Rs room] was as if C well, everything was exactly like mine: the Table, the glass of the chairs, table, closet, and bed. P. 38
  • 31. Conformity Equality
  • 32. The pipes of the Music Factory rang out the March harmoniously C the everyday March. What indescribable charm C this everydayness, repetitiveness, this re?ectivity! P. 123
  • 35. 5 ? Ciphers Personal Hours
  • 36. I walked on foot along the X axis (Fifty-ninth avenue) and the origin of the coordinates. / [] I purposefully chose to walk, not along the hypotenuse, but along the two perpendiculars. And here I was on the second perpendicular: a section of the circular street at the foot of the Green Wall. P. 82
  • 37. Roads in straight lines Belief to mathematics
  • 38. Not long ago I had to calculate the curvature of a new model of street diaphragm (now these elegantly decorated diaphragms are on every avenue, recording street conversations for the Bureau of Guardians). And I remember: each was a concave, pink, quivering membrane; they were strange organisms, made up of only one organ C an ear. P. 48
  • 39. Monitoring of the ciphers
  • 40. The glimmering of mirrors, gloomy closets, intolerably multi-colored sofas, a vast ?replace, and a mahogany bed. The only evidence of our contemporary, excellent, transparent, and eternal glass was in their pathetic, fragile, mini-quadrilateral windows. P. 26
  • 41. Amid the multicolored noise that sti?es the logical process of thought: the red, the green, the bronze- yellow, the white, the orange colors P. 152
  • 42. Colors are distracting to ciphers!
  • 43. Colors are distracting to ciphers! Rejection to the past Belief that the States way is the only correct way
  • 45. Demonstrate power and authority Spread propaganda Show conformity and allegiance Rejection to nature & past Reliance of mathematics
  • 46. The End. Thanks! ?
  • 47. References ? Aichberger, ?Markus. ?yellow ?window. ?Photograph. ?Flickr. ?Yahoo!, ?10 ?Oct ?2008. ?Web. ?1 ?Jan ?2013. ?<h}p://www.?ickr.com/ photos/sliceo?ife/2932452978/> ? Carver, ?Jack. ?Street ?life ?2. ?Photograph. ?Flickr. ?Yahoo!, ?12 ?Dec ?2011. ?Web. ?1 ?Jan ?2013. ?<h}p://www.?ickr.com/photos/ jackcarver/6512669801/> ? Leung, ?Dennis. ?G11 ?Leaders ?2012-?\13 ?The ?Serious ?Part ?(To ?be ?con?nued). ?Photograph. ?Facebook. ?Facebook, ?29 ?Sept ?2012. ?Web. ? 1 ?Jan ?2013. ?<h}ps://www.facebook.com/photo.php??id=10151177923697300&set=a. 10151176938842300.467744.738637299&type=3&theater> ? Liquid|||. ?Lab`s ?Instruments. ?Photograph. ?Flickr. ?Yahoo!, ?4 ?Aug ?2009. ?Web. ?1 ?Jan ?2013. ?<h}p://www.?ickr.com/photos/ liquidms/3789966959/> ? Powers, ?Robert. ?Aerial ?south ?side. ?Photograph. ?Flickr. ?Yahoo!, ?28 ?Dec ?2008. ?Web. ?1 ?Jan ?2013. ?<h}p://www.?ickr.com/photos/ repowers/3163617435/> ? Zamya?n, ?Yevgeny. ?We. ?New ?York: ?The ?Modern ?Library. ?2006. ?Print. ?