Diocesan Boys' School IB English - Architecture (Transparency and Opacity) in "WE"

Transparency/Opacity@WE Felex.Lau@DBS.IOP

1 Setting

Homes

Homes

Factories

Homes

Factories

Schools

Homes

Factories

Schools

Auditoriums

Homes

Factories

Schools

Auditoriums

The Cube

Homes

Factories

Schools

Auditoriums

The Cube

Green Wall

Homes

Factories

Schools

Auditoriums

The Cube

Green Wall

Underground

Homes

Factories

Schools

Auditoriums

The Cube

Green Wall

Underground

Ancient House

Homes

Factories

Schools

Auditoriums

The Cube

Green Wall

Underground

Ancient House

Transparent

Opaque

• 2 Transparency

… Through the glass walls, it’s as if I am seeing myself, my room, my nightshirt, my motions, repeating themselves a thousand times. This cheers me up: one sees oneself

as part of an enormous, powerful unit. Page 31.

… We were in R’s room… Everything was exactly like mine: the Table, the glass of the

chairs, table, closet, and bed. Page 38.

… We were in R’s room… Everything was exactly like mine: the Table, the glass of the

chairs, table, closet, and bed. Page 38. Unity

Among the brightly lighted, transparent cages there are darkened ones with lowered blinds… - what is happening, what is behind

her blinds? Page 25.

[I writes] “The ticket… you must lower the blinds, as if I was actually there with you…”

Page 97.

[I writes] “The ticket… you must lower the blinds, as if I was actually there with you…”

Page 97. Security

Should I hide them? But where? Everything is glass. Should I light it on fire? But they [The Guardians] would see me from the corridor

and the neighboring rooms. Page 145.

Should I hide them? But where? Everything is glass. Should I light it on fire? But they [The Guardians] would see me from the corridor

and the neighboring rooms. Page 145.

State monitoring the

ciphers

I stole a look: they [The Guardians] were walking from room to room, beginning on the right-hand end of the corridor, and

coming closer and closer. Page 145.

I stole a look: they [The Guardians] were walking from room to room, beginning on the right-hand end of the corridor, and

coming closer and closer. Page 145. Ciphers “monitoring” the

State

3 Opaqueness

The glimmering of mirrors, gloomy closets, intolerably multi-colored sofas, a vast “fireplace”,

and a mahogany bed. The only evidence of our contemporary, excellent, transparent, and eternal

glass was in their pathetic, fragile, mini-quadrilateral windows.

Page 26.

The glimmering of mirrors, gloomy closets, intolerably multi-colored sofas, a vast “fireplace”,

and a mahogany bed. The only evidence of our contemporary, excellent, transparent, and eternal

glass was in their pathetic, fragile, mini-quadrilateral windows.

Page 26.

The only evidence of our contemporary, excellent, transparent, and eternal

glass was in their pathetic, fragile, mini-quadrilateral windows.

Page 26.

The glimmering

of mirrors,

Gloomy closets,

Intolerably multi-

colored sofas,

A vast “fireplace”,

And a mahogany bed.

The only evidence of our contemporary, excellent, transparent, and eternal

glass was in their pathetic, fragile, mini-quadrilateral windows.

Page 26.

The glimmering

of mirrors,

Gloomy closets,

Intolerably multi-

colored sofas,

A vast “fireplace”,

And a mahogany bed.

The only evidence of our contemporary, excellent, transparent, and eternal

glass was in their pathetic, fragile, mini-quadrilateral windows.

Page 26.

The glimmering

of mirrors,

Gloomy closets,

Intolerably multi-

colored sofas,

A vast “fireplace”,

And a mahogany bed.

Unfamiliarity

I ran down the wide, twilight staircase, pulled at one door, the next, and then the third: locked. Everything was

locked, except for the one, “our” apartment, and there was nobody there…

Page 84.

I ran down the wide, twilight staircase, pulled at one door, the next, and then the third: locked. Everything was

locked, except for the one, “our” apartment, and there was nobody there…

Page 84.

Run-on sentence

Then – an explosion: a door slammed all the way downstairs, someone rapidly stamped

along the flagstones. Page 84.

A second pause at the door. He was dully stamping up here. If only for that door! I

pleaded with the door, but it was wooden: it started to creak and then howled.

Page 85.

There was a kind of vague drone. It may be machines, it may be voices – I didn’t know

anything but that I was next to a heavy, opaque door and the drone was coming from it.

Page 86.

I knocked, and I knocked again – louder. Things quieted down behind the door.

Something clanked, the door slowly, heavily opened to me.

Page 86.

I knocked, and I knocked again – louder. Things quieted down behind the door.

Something clanked, the door slowly, heavily opened to me.

Page 86.

Mystery

Still frightened that the door may open Page 134.

Still frightened that the door may open Page 134. Unpredictability

Recap

• 4

Transparency Unity Security Monitoring

Opaqueness Unfamiliarity Mystery Unpredictability

The.End. Thank.You.

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