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Thinking is getting oppressed (there is no room for critical thoughts). What counts is the screen. The crowd watches a guy dancing on the screen. That's the real entertainment. It's like the quote at the beginning of the story says : "First you see video. Then you wear video. Then you eat video. Then you be video."" (Cadigan 129). .
The whole setting is designed to distract people from reality, to make them believe that what they see on the screen is worth being worshipped. .
The Characters .
Cadigan provides a lot of information about the main character Pretty Boy, but what she doesn't give us is his real name. It could be seen as an allusion to how society has begun to perceive people. Human beings are judged upon their appearance, looks are becoming more and more important. It would be naive to .
PETTY BOY CROSSOVER Term Paper for "Aesthetics Of Techno-Culture in American Literature and Film-.
state that this development has just come up recently and that it is a phenomenon of our modern society, but it is obvious that TV programmes, magazines and all the other influential institutions who purport the public opinion have contributed a lot to this trend. .
But not only Pretty Boy gets his name due to his first appearance. "Rude Boy-, "Tall Girl-, "Older Man- - all these characters lack a real name. In the way Cadigan describes them, she creates rather "clinical- and "factual- characters who support the overall impression of the scene. The superficiality of the club transmits to the people there, or vice versa. .
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In the story the appearance plays an important role. Only good-looking people have access to the club. People are getting divided into beautiful and ugly and consequently a fake elite is getting created. In the club the same pattern is getting applied once again on a higher level. Here we can see the gap between the normal crowd and the "ultimate form of existence-, personalized by Bobby.
