We- Quote

"What's going on? A soul? Did you say, a soul? What the hell! Next thing you know we'll have Cholera again. What did i tell you? I told you so... we should operate on all of them, on the imagination. Extirpate the imagination. Surgery's the only answer...nothing but surgery..."

When I first read this I found it rather comical. It's a funny thing to get worked up over, a soul, the imagination. But the more I started to think about it, the more it became clear to me that it could be a scary thing. I mean, its intangible, you cannot grasp it, you cannot touch it, you cannot see it. I can understand how it can be seen as a threat. A soul and an imagination make everyone unique, which in a Utopia where everyone should be equal, being unique can clearly be a problem.

It is also funny how a soul is being related to Cholera, a painful and deadly disease. A soul is neither painful nor deadly. Yes, a soul allows one to experience pain but it does not bring it upon them. Also, a soul is not deadly, your soul cannot come out and harm people.

This quote also shows how little the doctors really know and understand the human body. Yes, there are certain parts of the brain that do certain jobs, like create imagination, but that is not their only function. By operating on these people the doctors could be putting themselves at more risk down the road. Not only this, but taking away imagination does not take away the soul. They are two different things, yet the doctors see them as one. Soul is not something that can be removed. It does not have a specific location in the body, it is everywhere, it is you. Yet these doctors do not see it, or they do not want to see it, it is hard to tell which. Surgery cannot solve all of your problems, and not all of your problems can be solved by surgery.