“ she had provisional identity papers by the end of the day”
Site of Control
Provisional = temporal / adaptable = capitalist exploitation of identity and ideas of disposability (m)
Papers = fragility of personhood, simultaneously fluidity and governmental requirements for manipulation
point one
Identity is constructed rather than innate and fixates itself round the benefits of a system
Dynamic formed with self definition and assigned identity
“The pale flames ecoming more lurid and orange
2 = struggle for self definition
Pale = illness - (M) illness is inherent to capitalism, ISA and RSA conditions that physicaly and mentallly weaken us
Flames = transient, transformable, potential - light/warmth = salvation
Orange = comfort vs warning, contradiction → difficulty in confrontation
Point two
2 = struggle for self definition
PM battle with self a rigged truth, mve from modernisms pedestalisation of universal truth and moving toward
WWII sparked this change through disillusionment and discomfort
“The chain was broken but she wasnt sure how long she could keep her new identity”
3 = route to transformation
Chain =
Confinement
(m) “proleteriates have nothing to lose but their chains” - economic confinement
Religion = chain of being - hierarchical defining, spiritual and material sense reduced
Move from “eva” , Eve nomenclature, feminism = sin confines = resculpting grants her potential
Point three
3 = route to transformation
Attempt to breakaway from societal confinements through the use of autonomy and identity
