We #2

Language:
"I saw the stupid muzzle of some kind of beast, his yellow eyes, obstinately repeating one and the same incomprehensible thought at me"(83).

The moment when D-503 comes literally face to face with nature is a very key moment within the second third of the book.  When he faces the creature (I think it's one of the primitive people outside the wall, staring at him through the glass), the language Zamyatin uses reflects the views of society.  Nature is this unpredictable, uncontainable entity that the mathematical values of the One State deem ugly.  It is natural that D-503 would call the creature, well, its muzzle, stupid because the people residing within the glass wall find the freedom of nature to be a state ov savagery.  I also keyed in to the word obstinate, which I'm pretty sure means stubborn.  The idea of nature could be stubborn in a way because it evades the mathematical rules of the one state by remaining so unpredictable.  Logic and math cannot sway it away from being what it is, so therefore nature is obstinate.  This quote helps my understanding of the One State by revealing the society's views on nature and why people in the society find nature so ugly.

Setting:
"Up above the Wall: the sharp black triangles of some kind of bird were cawing and throwing their breasts at the solid barrier electrical of electrical waves and then being flung backward, only to try flying over the wall yet again"(105).

Well, this is a new development that I found rather iteresting.  Not only is there a wall all the way around the One State, but there is an electrical field around the top to keep all the birds out! There is an upside in that, because nobody will have to worry about bird poop on their aeros in the morning.  However, nothing says "I hate nature" like some good, hearty bird zapping!  While I viewed the wall previously as a mechanism to keep people contained within the control of the government, I now see it an its zappy roof as something meant to keep the outside world away.  As I previously stated, nature and math can't really coexist, unless you're balancing a Hardy-Weinburg equation.  Nature is just so free (in other words, savage) and unpredictable that it would be poisonus to the society to have it introduced.  The walls benefit society by keeping out all that nasty nature!

Motifs:
"My cozy walls had vanished.  For a second, I felt as though I'd been thrown out there, outside, where a giant wind is rushing abot on wings and the slanting, dusky clouds are getting lower and lower"(108).

Hey, I thought I just said walls were meant to keep nature out! Not to keep D all cozy! I think it works both ways, the wall (or any walls within the book, as walls are a motif) keeps things against society out and keept society's supporters locked up tight.  I think D feels so comfortable inside the wall beacause math and logic, the building blocks of his society, are all he knows.  Having things we think as completely normal, such as an imagination and a soul, is something D-503 labels as a sickness.  The predictablilty of his life, represented by his cozy wall, is disintegrating.  The clouds that get lower are symbolizing the uncertainty D is facing.  This quote makes me think that walls represent security, predictability, and also the oppression of the government.