This provocative, almost pre-Raphaelite image continues the theme of teeth/cooking/eating as ferocity. I also see in it a frustration similar to Nostromo's at the beginning of the chapter: both cases are evoked by a perceived excess of "tranquillity" that resembles "disdain" for the tortures of the other. Allegorically, it is almost as if lawful society wants utopian socialism to be "impressed" with the reality of the fierce, flawed world.