Cursory Analysis: Short Circuit
Posted: May 03, 2013 8:16 pm
After first thinking of Number Five as the MC, I think he is just the protagonist. We learn more about Stephanie's personal life with ex-boyfriend and don't learn about Number Five beyond the OS throughline. I see two RS's: one with Steph and Number Five, and one with Steph and Newton. Number Five would be Steadfast in his belief he is alive, or more likely in the RS, that he enjoys Steph. She would then be Change. What paradigm of hers is changed? She'd share the OS's problem & solution (being change), while Number Five would share the OS symptom and response (being steadfast).
Since everyone consciously argues whether Number Five is sentient or just an automaton, that would be the symptom and response. Steph's personal problem might be with her ex-boyfriend. I think she's jaded or bigoted about men, until Newton comes along. She learns not to be prejudiced, and thus she winds up at the end having a happy life with Newton. That would match everyone in the OS being prejudiced about humans being the only ones capable of life. That then creates the symptom of sentience versus automaton... this is what they consciously argue about.
Since everyone consciously argues whether Number Five is sentient or just an automaton, that would be the symptom and response. Steph's personal problem might be with her ex-boyfriend. I think she's jaded or bigoted about men, until Newton comes along. She learns not to be prejudiced, and thus she winds up at the end having a happy life with Newton. That would match everyone in the OS being prejudiced about humans being the only ones capable of life. That then creates the symptom of sentience versus automaton... this is what they consciously argue about.