{"id":124,"date":"2012-09-03T19:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T23:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/lit-tech\/?p=124"},"modified":"2012-09-03T20:39:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T00:39:11","slug":"neuromancer-blog-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/lit-tech\/2012\/09\/03\/neuromancer-blog-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuromancer Blog #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irony in Neuromancer<\/em> is constantly portrayed through the many layers of traps throughout the story. Nothing is simple about the characters or the world that surrounds them. From the very beginning, the main character, Case feels that he has fallen \u201cinto the prison of his own flesh\u201d (Gibson 6). In order to stay alive and move on through his life, he must continue to take any drugs he can get his hands onto. In order to live, he is constantly damaging his body both inwardly and outwardly. Also, on the exterior, he tries to maintain his reputation at the local bar by acting confident and by drinking through his pain. On the interior, however, his mind and heart aches to be back where he started in cyberspace as a cowboy as well as to be with Linda Lee again. Though he describes Linda Lee as if she were his lover, the \u201cone face out of the dozens\u201d that had been \u201csingled out for him,\u201d (8) when they first encounter each other after a while, Linda addresses Case: \u201cHey. Case, good buddy\u201d (9). Through identifying Case as a \u201cgood buddy,\u201d Linda seems to belittle their supposed relationship to a mere friendship, if that at all. While Case seems to pine for Linda as he once knew her, when presented with the present version of herself he wants nothing to do with her. Thus, Case is trapped within his own body due to his usage of harmful drugs to sustain his life as well as his letting his mind disconnect from his heart and getting himself into deeper danger with every passing day. He even sleeps in a coffin, ultimately representing the fact that he is either already dead or will die if he continues on this path.<\/p>\n

When Case is allegedly \u201csaved\u201d because Armitage decides to recruit him through a somewhat random selection, Case must go into cyberspace to complete dangerous and criminal missions. Thus he becomes trapped within his own mind and at the same time endangers himself in the same way he endangered himself in Japan. Lastly, physically he is trapped, too. Armitage, his boss, has implanted toxins in his body so that Case has \u201ctime to do what [Armitage] is hiring [him] for\u2026Otherwise, the sacs melt and [Case] is back where [Armitage] found [him]\u201d (46). Again, Case finds himself trapped in a deal that he cannot escape. Overall, Case enables himself to become trapped physically, mentally, and emotionally throughout the story. Therefore, Neuromancer<\/em> is an extremely ironic novel from the very beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Irony in Neuromancer is constantly portrayed through the many layers of traps throughout the story. Nothing is simple about the characters or the world that surrounds them. From the very beginning, the main character, Case feels that he has fallen \u201cinto the prison of his own flesh\u201d (Gibson 6). In order to stay alive and<\/p>\n