Yevgeny Zamyatin

The plot of the novel “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin has a lot to due with the theme of uncontrollable human nature being driven by desires. In the dystopian society the novel portrays, life is drastically different from contemporary society. In short, the world went into a large war and 99.8 percent of the entire population was exterminated, and the survivors of the war created a new society. This new society is highly totalitarianistic and controls all aspects of the citizens lives’, people are given

We, written by Yevgeny Zamyatin in 1921 as a futurist depiction of protagonist D-503 living in a dystopian society controlled during the Russian revolution of 1917. It is the story of a head engineer writing in his journal who is living under the control of the benefactor, following laws in order to have the most efficient state and infallible happiness. The citizens are not given names they are given number and every hour of each of their lives are directed by a table. Zamyatin constructs the motif

His method is rather subtle and might not initially be recognized as satire without some knowledge of both the author and Russia at the time of the novel’s creation. Zamyatin starts the book with D-503 excitedly explaining his current project, the INTEGRAL, and why exactly it and his records are so important. On page 3 for instance, D-503 quotes the newspaper’s morning announcement: A thousand years ago your heroic forebears

We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin, took place 200 years in the future in the city called One State also it took place after a 200 year war. This was a place that had letters and numbers as their name instead of their own birth name, and everything single thing they did was controlled nobody really had their own freedom. During the novel D-503, the main protagonist, goes through a series of events throughout the whole story, and the main two things that stood out was how he put all his trust and love into somebody

isn’t the society that is responsible for the dehumanisation of the individual, it is the individual themselves. The most substantial difference, however is the way in which both writers convey the importance of retaining individualism in society. Zamyatin uses the characters D-503 and I-330 in contrast to each other to display different schools of thought in the situation – surrendering ones individualism for a collective dream and rebelling because (as

The classical dystopian novel We, which was published in 1924 by Yevgeny Zamyatin, is a great example of a work of literature that uses color imagery. The dystopia within this book, United State is set 200 years in the future, in a totalitarian world that has total control over their citizens’ lives, who are called numbers. The readers get to know this society through the perspective of D-503,

understanding all of the differences and similarities between two cultures. Slavic and Western culture have been seen as direct opposites throughout the 20th century due to the cold war. But how different are these cultures exactly? The novel We by Yevgeny Zamyatin and The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells explores the philosophy behind human nature, ethics, and society. These sci-fi works have similar themes, but the differences in how they approach them can be related to their specific culture. This

Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We depicts a dystopian world ruled by the One State through the eyes and conscience of mathematician and protagonist D-503. We was written in 1921, after Russia saw the Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917, led by the Marxist Bolshevik leader, Vladimir Lenin. (Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d.) Zamyatin’s constructed ideals of the One State parallels that of his own country, under the totalitarian regime imposed by the communist government, in order to convey his satirical political

The novel, We written by Yevgeny Zamyatin and the film, In Time directed by Andrew Niccol both show a representation of society being controlled by a totalitarianism style of government, where the state has control over the rest of society who are shown as machines that are being controlled to fulfill the states goals. In the novel, We every aspect of life is regulated by One State, this includes any personal time, sex, furniture choice, education and etc. In the film, In Time society is also controlled

Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We is known as the first dystopian novel and has paved the road for future dystopian novels, like George Orwell’s 1984. Both We and 1984 are scarily relevant to the 21st century and act as warnings against the natural outcomes of totalitarianism. We’s protagonist is numbered D-503, a mathematician and the engineer behind the Integral. He lives under the careful watch of the Guardians and stays loyal to the authoritarian rule of the Benefactor. He lives in a city-state called the