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Yevgeny Zamyatin in his creation of We the novel allows the reader into the personal issues of a number of the One State. This internal struggle not only affects the mind of this number but it starts to get him into situations that he never imagined. While this overall plot is an impressive feat, it is the inner working that Zamyatin is subtly commenting on that really drives a reader to keep going.
The dystopian world the Zamyatin sets up has both equal creativity as well as reality. The time he is writing in, during world war one and his own country’s revolutions, brings forth a fear that readers of the time could relate to. This dystopian world was a possibility, in some capacity, for all of it’s futuristic details, and as the readers of the time, settled into their minds for the long haul. As a present day reader, it still resonates ninety years later.
As a member of the One State, the character D-503 brings to light the rebellion within us all. Whether we like it or not, it seems hardwired within our system to question what is around us, including our authorities and systems. And yet, his final choices contrast to the struggle underneath all humans: order and the loyalty of repetition. We have proven as people that we will give up freedom for peace, and will submit to the yoke if the promise is happiness. The allusions the Zamyatin makes to the weakened human soul, of any soul being a negative thing, only enhances the fear we may one day feel as members of this futuristic One State.
The book brings about many emotions in a reader, but leaves some parts hanging. Whether this is the intent of the author or not, I was left wanting a little bit more. I wanted to see the next chapter of the book, which I guess all good books have within them. While it was difficult going through the first few chapters, or entries, it was well worth hanging on to see the result. Each entry gives a little more insight to the picture, and sometimes I got that D-503 was either letting it all out, his entire thoughts, or that he was holding something back, for fear of making it come real. The vivid descriptions allow one to easily picture life in the One State, allowing the reader to proceed as they will: personally, I took it in as D-503, trying to see as he saw, and not watching him from above, an observer. There were some times I felt that I had to be the observer than the character, but it was only to get the bigger picture of what was going on, just something that D-305 couldn’t. To be honest, I would be excited to see a sequel to this story, but I know that almost never happens with dystopian novels: so i shall wonder after the affairs of the One State and the beloved D-503
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Before 1984, before Brave New World, there was We
"Poet, mocker (laughter, he wrote, is the most devastating weapon), heretical fighter for art and in life, Zamyatin was a consistent enemy of all canonized ideas, all coercion, all the purveyors of 'compulsory salvation.' He mercilessly attacked and ridiculed the emerging totalitarianism, its fawning mediocrities, its reign of brutality, its violation and destruction of the free and creative spirit. He foresaw it all: ubiquitous 'guardians'; the control of thought and action; the constant brainwashing which resulted either in unquestioning automatons or in hypocrites who lied for the sake of survival; the demand that everybody worship the Benefactor, with his huge hand that literally 'liquidates,' reduces all who dissent, all who passionately want to be themselves to a puddle of clear water." ~ Mirra Ginsberg, in the Introduction (Harper edition)
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giselle helene ponsReviewed in Italy on August 3, 2017
WE one if the first dystopian novels of tge XXth century.
