The Landscape of D-503's Mind Anonymous 12th Grade

Zamyatin's excerpt "Evening…. digestible concept, by…" illustrates the landscape of D-503's shambolic mind, in order to establish the roots as the irrational pursuit of perfection. Zamyatin begins by establishing the metaphor between the terrestrial world and a notion of paradise, in which there is perfection. The "golden milky fabric" that Zamyatin describes, suggests the notion that from below this fabric, or this divide, the unattainability of perfection is murky since it is milky, however with the golden feature of the fabric, D-503 suggests that it is a pursuit worthy of efforts because gold is unanimous with success (Zamyatin 54). This description in itself emphasizes the irrationality of this pursuit because the description of milky is juxtaposed with the description of golden, which suggests that the route to success is murky and unclear. This failure to acknowledge the flaw or implication of his statement, lead to the disillusionment of D-503 as he realizes that the path to success, which is for him the path to perfection, is unattainable. The flaw in his reasoning suggests the humanity of D-503 since humans are highly prone to oversee detail, which is the basis of accurate knowledge and perfection. This human quality...