Nature Prevails: Deconstructing Doctor No
             Ian Fleming's use of binary opposition in Doctor No illustrates dichotomies of power unraveling their selves, thus proving the equality of their positions with the lesser of the opposition. Culture versus nature is illustrated as the novel's main binary opposition: James Bond reveals the ambiguity of the polarity while Honeychile Rider and Dr. No provide examples of culture and nature in opposition with each other and the deconstructed privilege awarded to nature. Doctor No provides an excellent reception to post-structuralism criticism through its anarchical dichotomies: "the deconstructionist aims to show that the text is at war with itself: it is a house divided, and disunified" (Barry, 72).
             The protagonist, James Bond, symbolizes justice on two levels. In the world of crime he is the final fist of justice, empowered by the British government: "The license to kill for the Secret Service, the double-0 prefix, was a great honour" (Fleming, 17). Textually he is also symbolized as justice between the binary opposition of culture and nature. Although he identifies closer with culture do to his upbringing he does not deny the relevance and equality of nature: "Honey, now look here. You know these things. I can't help it that I live in towns. I'd like to know about your things too. I just haven't had that sort of life. I know other things instead" (86). Albeit he is subject to discrepancies in this matter as depicted by his naive and callous recognition of Dr. No's ocean aquarium as a 'picture' (155). He has the desire to care about nature but does not always adequately put into perspective the reality of nature. The torment Bond endures in Dr. No's cultural based death trap is a mixture of cultural and natural based torture: an electric grille, a portion of tunnel with burning hot metal, tarantulas and a g...