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It just got GOOD

Valuska & Eszter are the same - they both believe they have a greater understanding of reality and that everyone else lives in a happy delusional state. Their views are opposite, but they are inverses of each other.

I’m not entirely confident on this thought because the tone and timbre have changed dramatically from the first section, but I think Valuska is potentially a representation of the hopeful optimist without a cause that is unable to see what is right in front of him.

Is it willful blindness or an inability to make out shape and form? Unclear at the moment. Could change my mind on this!

Mrs. Eszter feels like she is another metaphor for the state. Tearing down everything in its path on its mission to the intended end. Careless to any despair left in its wake.

She lays in her bed after indulging in grotesque hedonism - the sleeping giant. The mice slowly cross the room, careful not to wake her, hyper-aware that something unsettling is present. She is the state. The mice are the people.

Brilliant.

Mrs. Eszter and Mrs. Plauf seem to act as foils to each other. They are more similar than they would like the think.