> [!important] > DE-AIFYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY Freedom & Control 看似自由，实则活在天网的控制之下，逃不开的魔爪 权力没有以任何实质形式出现（警察，暴力） 无声无形，无处不在，无法逃脱，理所应当，没有存在感的的控制 the absence of control how is rebellion not possible --- How does Kazuo Ishiguro build a quiet dyspotia of pervasive yet invisible control? How does Kazuo Ishiguro construct a dystopia of pervasive control without visible oppression? ## Backlog ### Invisible hierarchy & othering "Actually there was some point in hanging about the van as it was being unloaded. What you did—if you were one of these Juniors—was to follow back and forth from the storeroom the two men in overalls carrying the big cardboard boxes, asking them what was inside. “A lot of goodies, sweetheart,” was the usual reply." "When we went in, the only people inside were the two chubby women in aprons who worked there. They were smoking cigarettes at one of the tables, but they quickly got up and disappeared into the kitchen, so then we had the place to ourselves." "He [Keffers] was this grumpy old guy who turned up two or three times a week in his muddy van to look the place over. He didn’t like to talk to us much..." --- "Very well, sometimes that meant we kept things from you, lied to you. Yes, in many ways we fooled you. I suppose you could even call it that. But we sheltered you during those years, and we gave you your childhoods." "We couldn’t visit the boys’ dorms after nine o’clock, they couldn’t visit ours. The classrooms were all officially “out of bounds” in the evenings, as were the areas behind the sheds and the pavilion." "Thinking back now, I can see we were just at that age when we knew a few things about ourselves—about who we were, how we were different from our guardians, from the people outside—but hadn’t yet understood what any of it meant." --- ## Back 2 ** Back In fact, Kathy states that the presence of an authoritative figure makes them feel safe -- "We probably recognised that it was [Miss Emily's] presence, intimidating though it was, that made us all feel so safe at Hailsham." Safety always comes at an expense of freedom -- while students gradually give up more and more of their freedom in seek of safety, they become more and more used to obeying rules until they lose their agency over what they can do. Even later at the cottages when they left Hailsham, the habits of conforming to rules remain -- "Chrissie sighed. “Okay. We’re not supposed to visit carers. Absolutely strictly speaking. Certainly not encouraged.”. **