Quotes have never ever been my forte. I like my own words so much better and I feel like I am stealing but there was one that I could not get out of my mind no matter how hard I mentally scraped. When d-503 admitted to I-330 that he was afraid of fog she in her amazingly cryptic and human way she has told him “That means you love it. You are afraid of it because you it’s stronger than you, you hate it because you’re afraid of it, you love it because you can’t master it. You can only love something that refuses to be mastered.”( 71) This statement, made with the utmost of confidence, really made me stop and think. In a novel barren of even the most basic human emotion I was surprised and confused to find this beacon of human wisdom.
The very basis of mastery is as what humans seek. The human being always wants to get better and better at something so they seek to master it and destroy what they do not know. But it some how makes perfect sense that one can only love what one can not master. The human soul has been repeatedly shown to be completely incapable of being mastered and so it adds sense behind falling in love. Well at least as much sense as love can ever make.
I also found it ironic that in this society it seems that almost every human has been mastered. There is absolutely no room for love by i-330’s definition. The only one who seems to have not been conquered is herself. She has surreptitiously planted the seed in d-503’s head that he is in love with her. When I really sat down and thought about it she is honestly one of the most conniving characters I have ever read about. She takes complete advantage of d-503’s under developed sense of emotion. She uses it to her advantage much like how an adult might manipulate a teenager in a similar situation. It’s horrible but the only on who has any knowledge of love is the one who abuses it. It almost made me lose hope even in the flame of humanity in the dystopian horror that had been created.
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