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Banu Thuraisingam The Motif of Clothing in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich In a Stalinist communist society, in which the government sought to destroy the notion of all private property, the ownership, even of clothing, is significant. In the camp, where Shukhov cannot even call time his own, clothing is used as a means of marking him as an autonomous individual. Solzhenitsyn uses repeated references to the motif of clothing to depict...: o How the system tries to rob the prisoners of their individuality. o The hypocritical system which is indeed corrupt. o The struggle of the prisoners to maintain their humanity/ civilization. o Status. o The prisoners' defiance of the Stalinist system. o The cold on a physical level and the significance of physical elements (i.e. keeping warm). o The oppressive nature of the camp o An environment in which everything is controlled and monitored. o The lack of privacy which subsequently leads to...

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