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Three Parallel Worlds in the Novel "The Man in the High Castle"
August 2022-10-27 08:08:04
When we are reading "The Man in the High Castle", what we see before our eyes are actually three parallel worlds. The first one is the world where the original story took place (we call it the "High Castle World"). In this world, Germany and Japan are the overlords of the world; the second world is the book "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy" (the title is derived from the fifth sentence of Chapter 12 of the Bible "Ecclesiastes" "People are afraid of heights, and there are Panic; the apricot tree blooms, and the grasshopper becomes a burden; what one wishes is also abolished, because people return to his eternal home, and the mourners go about in the street." "Grasshopper", this universe is called "Grasshopper World"), the United States and Britain have become the world's hegemons; the third is the world in which we (readers) are (we call it the "real world"), We should be familiar with the history of this world.
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The Man in the High Castle quotes
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Joe Blake: [noticing ashes falling like snowflakes] What is that?
Nazi Police Officer: Oh, that's the hospital.
Joe Blake: The hospital?
Nazi Police Officer: Yeah, Tuesdays, they burn cripples, the terminally ill. Drag on the state.
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Mark Sampson: I don't plan on dying, Frank. But you can't live your life in fear. I was back east at the end of the war, in Boston.
Frank Frink: Oh, Jesus.
Mark Sampson: Yeah. You had to see it to believe it, Frank. Overnight, lynch mobs were murdering Jews because suddenly we were less than human.
Frank Frink: And what did you do?
Mark Sampson: Well, those of us who came out in one piece. We buried service weapons underground, well wrapped in oil, and we vowed revenge. I got a life to lead, got kids to raise. And Hitler and the Nazis - I mean, I don't care how it looks. They won't last. One thing I realized about my people is we got a different sense of time. These may be dark years, but we'll survive. We always do.