Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Neuromancer: Frameworks and Motifs

The two frameworks/motifs that I saw throughout part II ,and in some of part III, were the cyberspace and brain/mind/nervous system frameworks. There is one party where Case and Molly go to this man named Finn who runs a scan on them. He is checking Molly and he says things like "something new in your head?" and "silicon, coat of pyrolitic carbons." He is asking Molly if she has had any more surgeries to put new things in her head as if it were nothing. This is very strange and it once again makes it seem like Molly is not really human, she could possibly be a machine. Also, Finn puts things in Molly's head so Case is able to see what she sees.This goes with the motif of the brain/mind.
Throughout this section of the book Case is constantly visiting cyberspace. He puts on these "trodes" and goes into the matrix. It is somewhat complicated to understanding what he is seeing and thinking when he is in the matrix. It seems like he starts thinking about random things and people. He also visits cyberspace when Molly has to go on her missions because through cyberspace he can see what is happening with her. This cyberspace world is very different from reality. Everything seems more technology based and whatever happens to you in cyberspace is carried on to the real world. Molly gets shot in the leg and when she comes back to reality she is still injured. So this shows that cyberspace is not exactly something that is all in the mind but a real place.

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