Dystopia Journal 3: We

Topic C

Yevgeny Zamyatin uses We as a warning of what might happen in real life if communism continues spreading throughout the world, as he fears might truly happen. Although the book portrays a very technologically advanced society with certain aspects that may not be entirely plausible, the ideas contained within it are very much believable. The dystopian society in which D-503 lives in seems to model that of Soviet Russia during the era where Stalin was in power. In both Stalinist Russia and The One State, it is shown that peoples civil liberties are ignored for the common good, such as privacy and freedom of speech and thought. This historical similarity offers a very believable aspect to Zamyatin's book, as we can see that it can truly happen in real life to a certain extent as is shown in We. Zamyatin uses this warning of technological control over people's lives as well as The One State's control over its citizen's beliefs and freedom to show how out of control a totalitarianist regime can become. Even though Zamyatin paints a very grim picture of how the future may turn out, he also offers hope at the end of We. Near the end, the revolutionary group called The Mephi is able to successfully break through society's grasp on them by destroying The Green Wall, showing us that something can be done in order to escape this kind of oppressive regime.

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