By attempting to exert ultimate control over Seraphima’s most intimate spiritual life, the orphanage in Seraphima’s Great Adventures is a microcosmic example of a totalitarian regime. In this regime, one’s inner-world is subject to examination by the ruling entity. The enemy of a totalitarian regime is independent, private thoughts and beliefs. When one has access to this inner-world, one that stands beyond the confines of the totalitarian structure, then the project of totalitarianism is not achieved. In his book The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn recounts the freedom to be found in thought. Speaking about the Samarka Camp, Solzhenitsyn writes that “while they openly claim your labor and your body, to the point of exhaustion and even death, the camp keepers do not encroach at all on your thoughts. (…) And this results in a sensation of freedom of much greater magnitude than the freedom of one’s feet to run along on the level” (305-306). In the camp, the greatest, the only, freedom is that of thought, which the camp keepers leave in the possession of the prisoners. However, in a true totalitarian regime, the freedom that resides in independent thought is extinguished. When it has finally been eradicated, the regime has succeeded in manipulating human nature to such an extent that one’s sole self-purpose is to serve the needs of the regime and of the masses. The ability of totalitarian regimes to manipulate the humanity out of someone rests in their ability to destroy any sense of individuality. Once one is convinced that all they are worth, all they are, is their physical body, they become infinitely more easy to manipulate. “It is chiefly for the sake of this supersense, for the sake of complete consistency, that it is necessary for totalitarianism to destroy every trace of what we commonly call human dignity. For respect for human dignity implies the recognition of my fellow-men or our fellow-nations as subjects, as builders of worlds or cobuilders of a common world. No ideology which aims at the explanation of all historical events of the past and at mapping out the course of all events of the future can bear the unpredictability which springs from the fact that men are creative, that they can bring forward something so new that nobody ever foresaw it” (Arendt 458). Individuality, which is the dignity of the human being, is exactly that which destabilizes the totalitarian structure. “What totalitarian ideologies therefore aim at is not the transformation of the outside world or the revolutionizing transmutation or society, but the transformation of human nature itself” (Arendt 458). It follows that the principal goal of totalitarian rule is not solely to rule the body or command the mind but to transfigure the dignity of the human being.