Thursday, June 17, 2010

We: Frederick W Taylor and Femme Fatale


Frederick Winslow Taylor was a mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency. Taylor believed that in his day the industrial management was amateurish, and that it should be formulated as academic discipline. He believed that workers were supposed to be incapable of understanding what they were doing.
This relates back to the novel We as this is very much of the OneState operates. Everything runs with smooth efficiency and workers seem to not think beyond what they are told to do.

definition of femme fatale: enchantress - a woman who is considered dangerously seductive.

I-330 fits into the definition of femme fatale as she is related to fire and darkness which is a very compelling aspect as OneState is all about ice as everything is blue and made out of glass and also it is always light and barely dark. This makes the character I-330 interesting. I believe the action that makes her seductive is the fact that her eyes are said to close off like blinds, able to hide what she is feeling inside. To be able to hide something in OneState is very rare and dangerous. It is this rarity and dangerousness that seduces D-503 towards I-330.

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