The City Of Diomira Analysis

In the city of Diomira, Polo delineates the type of ideal city we all aim for and want to be in, whether it be for a holiday or we find ourselves thrown in a bizarre city. A knowledgeable traveler reaches in this city that is beautiful in a lot of ways that other cities are deemed beautiful. However, everything that this man experiences are envy, because he thinks that others are enjoying the period of happiness in its purest form. And it is this jealousy and discontent that motivates people that strive for different life encounters and emotions. However, are those people happy because they don’t know any better or are we following something that was once in our hands but have had neglected them? In the rhetoric line, “…..is that he feels envy
Zora is not a gaudy city, and lacks the monuments and manufacturing that characterize other great cities. Yet, it has a system of existence that forms what Calvino describes as “an armature, a honeycomb in whose cells each of us can place the things he wants to remember” (13). Thus, Zora is unchanging in its nature and thus, the relative locations of its contents are waiting to be recalled by the man recollecting them. Its permanent nature contradicts the passing of time and thus, in staying constant, Zora perishes altogether. And this may lead to disenchantment and perplexity upon return, because memories evolve along with us and the ones we go back to are often the ones that have advanced the most from where they started. Additionally, some of us look for unvarying definitions to build our life upon, and thus hold onto that “Zora” our entire life. However, seeking for a routine and declining to see the way things wind may leave one incapable of seeing the one-dimensionality of time. Furthermore, the whole idea of this unforgettable city along with its passing heeds us with the dangers faced by loss of culture, tradition and
Calvino uses the imagery of the postcard to demonstrate the significance of the remembered city. The city and time that the postcards represent are no longer existing or ever did, because this postcard city is unreal and had never been real. Hence, what we see in the postcards is not representation of the real past but rather an out of context copy of a small portion of the past. And the fact that the inhabitants of this city prefer the city presented in the postcards is like the grass is always greener over there. Similarly, if people from the past saw postcards from the future, they would react in the same way and will be enthusiastic about the different possibilities