The Roles of I-330 and O-90
Zamyatin's We is a story set far into the future. There is only one country, OneState, and the government controls everything. The story is actually a diary written by the main character, D-503, that is to be sent aboard a space shuttle to other planets in order to describe the greatness of OneState. The diary details the changes that take place in D-503's life and way of thinking. A woman who was known as I-330 brought about these changes. This anarchistic woman corrupts D-503, throughout the story and steals him away from the woman who loves him, O-90. These two women, and especially I-330, have major roles in the story that documents D-503's gaining of a soul.
In the beginning of We, D-503 is satisfied with the life he is living in OneState. As a mathematician, OneState is perfectly suited for him. All daily events are scheduled to a certain time block in the day, the citizens have alphanumerical names, and OneState is attempting to create a law of ethics based on addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication. He is a builder of the space shuttle, Integral, which will colonize other planets. D-503 spends his time with a woman referred to as O-90, or O. O-90 is D-503's only girlfriend at the beginning of the story although O has two boyfriends. It is not until later on in the story, when D-503 comes to have another girlfriend, I-330, that his life begins to change drastically.
O is important to the story because she represents a woman of the old days. She is in rebellion against the OneState that D-503 loves, although she is too peaceful and naïve to resort to violence. She is described as looking like her name, short, round, and with the circle of her mouth always open. O's wrist has a circle of puffy flesh that is described as being babyish. O is much like a woman from the twentieth century. While D-503 is oblivious to nature, O-90 admires the spring season and the flowers from the botanical museum. O is also in love, a concept that D-503 is not able to understand. She wants to have D-503's baby, and for that reason she is in rebellion against OneState. OneState would not allow her to become pregnant because she is ten centimeters below the normal height. After D-503 meets I-330, O writes him a letter proclaiming her love to him, but also to tell him that s...
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...s through no fault of D-503 and the government captures I-330. The story ends with D-503, content as he was before he met I-330; this is a result of an operation that removed his imagination. It is with irony that D-503 watches the torture of I-330 with no recollection of the woman he was obsessed with.
I-330 and O-90 are both alike in certain ways, but at the same time very different. Both women are in rebellion against OneState. 0-90 wants to have D-503's child, and I-330 wants a complete change of government. Both women are able to appreciate the way of life before OneState, O-90 likes flowers and nature, and I-330 likes dresses and the music. These women are different in the way that O-90 is more peaceful, while I-330 is willing to use violence to complete her plan. O is more simple minded and much more likely to be a follower, while I –330 is a leader and a manipulator. Although both women are competing for the same man, they finally unite in rebellion and I-330 agrees to take O-90 outside of the walls of OneState so she can be free with her child. While both women continue to be a part of the story, it is I-330 that wins D-503's heart, and changes his life forever.
Nelson’s film adaptation of Othello is one of the many adaptations that Hollywood has created to modernize old works to fit into current times. “O” is about an African American high school basketball star that attends an all white prep school Palmetto grove. Odin James is the MVP of his basketball team; he shares this title with his best friend Michael. Odin dates Desi the Dean’s daughter and they are madly in love. Hugo is the coaches’ son, and is jealous of O and Michael’s success on the basketball court. Hugo then plots to play O against Desi and Michael. This works and in the end O ends up killing Desi, along with himself. In the end Hugo gets caught.
The film “O” produced in 2001 is a modern adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Othello. The movie was both filmed and is centered around Charleston, South Carolina. The movie follows the downfall of Odin James (Othello) a revered high school basketball player who is made to believe by his best friend Hugo Golding (Iago) that his girlfriend Desi (Desdemona) is cheating on him with fellow teammate Michael Cassio (Cassio). Like the original play it focuses on themes like sexuality, deception, betrayal, and murder. However, it includes themes of race and substance abuse in order to modernize it as well as bring in relevant issues.
The pieces of the book come together in the end, where a helicopter leaves the bus in which McCandless died. Krakauer included specific enough details to understand the entire story. He provided an emotional ending that leaves the reader with many thoughts.
...ence more reasoning to the jealousy of the characters and the actions they take. With the changed setting come many differences: drugs and alcohol, peer pressure, violence, and different sources for jealousy and hatred. These issues are the dilemmas we, as teenagers in this new millennium, are faced with day to day. "O" addresses these new era evils without abandoning the original themes and major issues of Shakespeare's Othello. The audience can relate to a story written down hundreds of years ago and benefit from it.
... for them but all of this challenged as both embark on journeys that will challenge everything they have come to know. Okonkwo is exiled from his village for seven years sent to his motherland, reputation lost, and land taken over by missionaries. Odysseus originally a man of pride and glory spends twenty years trying to find his way home after fighting in the Trojan War. At first he lets his love of fame, power, and impulse get to him causing the lost of his men with. After years away from home Odysseus patience is taken from his their experiences. Unfortunately Okonkwo’s pride gets the best of him and he chooses death rather then to conform to the ways of the white men, while Odysseus adapts to his experiences and takes man of patients and intelligences over being a man of action. It is because of time and experience that these two men meet two different faiths.
... children. Her children do not fully understand nor do they appreciate their mother as much as they should, because as hard as life was for them, Nnu Ego is the reason they are alive. On the other side of the spectrum is Okonkwo, the main character from Things Fall Apart. He is not the type of father who is very caring of his children. In fact, Okonkwo’s only worry for them is that they live up to his expectations. Okonkwo’s children try to please their father but a man of such impossible and illogical standards can never be satisfied. Whether a relationship between parents and children is one of love, struggle, or expectation, the truth remains that no bond is ever perfect.
...o devours the insides of children before he murders them to satisfy himself. In her second task, she sacrifices the fairies to eat some grapes. Like Captain Vidal who sacrifices his men to continue to be in power. In order for Ofelia to become a princess she has to die. Ofelia dehumanizes herself to achieve happiness. On the other hand, when Alice is eaten by the wolves, Rosaleen is delighted. In the film, the scenes transition from Alice’s agony to Rosaleen’s content over the death of her sister. During Alice’s funeral, Rosaleen is hardly affected by the death of her sister and paints herself as innocent. Jordan directs, “Why she did not save herself?” (The Company of Wolves). She ask the question, but in reality her sister’s welfare was far from her mind. Rosaleen’s happiness demonstrates a silent murderer. The girls embody their abusers and become the predators.
The character of Uno is a half white, half black teenaged male. His mom and dad are separated. Both his mom and his dad have new families by now, and this makes Uno unhappy.
O. Henry utilizes a first person point of view in his writing to emphasize the significance
Okonkwo’s father, Unoka, is a lazy man who lacks the diligence that is needed to be a good father, husband and leader. As a child, Okonkwo was ashamed of his father. He knew that once he had a family of his own, he would do anything and everything in his power to stray from the bad example that his father had set. Unoka’s job is to provide for his family, but since he was unable to do so, his family had to face many struggles providing for themselves. Unoka abandoned his family when they needed him. He is a disgrace to them and a dishonor to the clan. Okonkwo faced struggles in his everyday live, when he needed to step up and take the responsibility that he father refused. Because he had experienced a live without a proper father, he promised himself that he would never get to that point and he would understand his obligations and do whatever he could to accomplish what was needed for his family and the Igbo people.
The main character in the book is Offred, one of these unfortunate servants whose only right to exist depends on her ovaries’ productivity. She lives with the Commander and his wife in a highly supervised centre.
“With a father like Unoka, Okonkwo did not have the start in life which many young men had. He neither inherited a barn nor a title, or even a young wife. But in spite of these disadvantages, he had begun even in his father’s lifetime to lay the foundations of a prosperous future” (18). Most of his accomplishments were despite his father, whom Okonkwo loathed, but with whom I connected. In the novel, I relate more to Okonkwo’s father, Unoka, a much more laid back character. Like Unoka, I am in love with life, lazy, not worried about tomorrow, and deeply in debt.
The two women can also compare through their emotions. Emotion in this play has an important stance. Emotions are what really cause the characters to act the way that they act, and to do the things that they do. For example, Hamlet wanted the other characters to believe that he was mad in order to obtain information about his father’s death. This was a smart move, but the main reason that he did this was due to the drive of his emotions. He was so angry and revenge hungry, that he would do anything to get back at the person who ended his father’s life.
The main character, Okonkwo is never close to his three wives or children because of the male dominant society he lives. In the Igbo society, men are superior to women because they are considered as the brave warriors of the land; they go to wars and can have more than one wife. Their titles, homes, and wives are all symbols of wealth (Onyemae...