Yevgeny Zamyatin

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    O-90's Character Analysis

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    You suddenly feel like going on the Benefactor’s Machine?’ Then her words flooded on as over a dike: ‘So what! At least I’ll get to feel it…. inside me. And maybe for only a few days … see it. Just once to see its little fold, here, like that one there on the table. Just one day! (Zamyatin 109) O-90’s goal is to have a child and she agrees to disappear. D-503 tells her if she is trying to set herself for death to which she responded that she wanted to have someone else other than herself. She wants to feel a bond with someone that has her blood. She is aware of the consequences, but she wants to feel loved and the only way she could really have an intimate…

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    The Interactive Oral Commentary provided many intriguing insights into the thematic and contextual subtleties in meaning of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We. In OneState all the creative pieces praise the government and essentially serve as propaganda, drawing a parallel between the OneState and The Party in George Orwell’s 1984. Both dystopian novels share a repressive government, which aspires to fully subjugate the individual to their control. I found Zamyatin’s narrative techniques very intriguing.…

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    Totalitarianism as a form of government gets represented in a multitude of ways in literature. Two particularly important and popular representations of totalitarian states are found in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Both are written as first person, diary style accounts. The information on how the totalitarian systems function is limited due to the constraints on information available to the narrators and the limits of what they share. These are two unique…

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    Dystopian Women Analysis

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    The Dystopian Woman In the dystopian future world of We, written by Yevgeny Zamyatin, everything seems to be perfectly figured out in a mathematical solution. Numbers, instead of being called people, follow blindly behind the dictatorial OneState government. They listen to the same OneState tune, they march along to the same rhythm, they have designated sex days. The Numbers’ lives are completely determined by OneState leaders. The OneState government wants every Number to buy into the lie that…

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    Introduction: My report examines the connections of how control can affect individuality and how control can limit or remove freedom. The texts that I have chosen to show and explain these connections are Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. I chose these texts as each text contains plenty of evidence to support the connections between each text so that they can link to the theme of ‘control’. Connection One and Text One: Identity in…

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    Dystopian fiction stories really on many different themes that make each story unique. An example of an important theme is an environmental change in “All summer in a day” by Ray Bradbury. In another famous dystopian tale “ Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr, the story relies the theme of a lack of individuality. The last story is “We” by Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin which relies on the theme of a big government control. These themes make each story very exciting to read and will be discussed…

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    status in their districts, and are allowed to live in the Victors’ Village with their family for life. The Hunger Games is just one of many examples of dystopian literature, a type of writing that is widely used as well as watched and read throughout the world. The origin and history of dystopian literature, the authors’ creativity and prior life, and the effects of the first dystopian novel written, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin published in 1924 that inspired many authors, such as George Orwell’s…

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    We Zamyatin Summary

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    In We, Yevgeny Zamyatin creates a mathematical world. The One State is built on math and logic where people are numbers not names. The square root of minus one is a mathematical concept that conflicts with the One State’s ideals and, as such, confounds the narrator D-503. The square root of minus one represents individuality and imagination. D-503’s changing reaction to the concept corresponds with his changing perception of the One State and his progressive acceptance of rebellious ideas.…

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    Zamyatin We

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    To the Communist Party Congress of the U.S.S.R.: As a member of the Russian Communist Party, it has recently it has been brought to my attention that the Communist Party Congress of the U.S.S.R. intends on banning the circulation of a recently published novel in the U.S.S.R. The book in question, We, written by Yevgeny Zamyatin, is merely a piece of fiction. This book entails the journal entries of a man living in a futuristic society where the government is ruled by the One State, whose…

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    145). This quote also furthers the reader's understanding that the unison of time and community piecing together an identity created peace. The boy ended up realizing that he was not going insane, but trying to find his identity. Without his identity he had become lost. In summary, once the relationship of time and community plays interacts with one’s identity there is clarity and order. One’s identity can be stripped, glorified, changed, and forgotten. The interchanging relationship of time…

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