Zamiatin, "We". Summary of the work

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Dystopia is a very special genre of literature. On the one hand, this is a description of a world that simply cannot exist: a cruel world, intolerant of the manifestation of human individuality. On the other hand, ordinary life without any fantastic elements, only on paper. And sometimes it becomes a little scary from such similarity to our reality with you …

This is the novel that the Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin wrote, "We". He was the first to create this kind of work. The great Aldous Huxley, along with George Orwell, became his followers.

Zamiatin, "We". Summary of the work

The novel is written in the form of a diary kept by a citizen of the United State. His name is D-503. More precisely, this is his "number". There are no names here, because even they can influence the formation of personality, which is so condemned by the Benefactor - the omnipotent and omniscient ruler.

From the first diary entrieswe learn about the structure of life in the United State. Everyone here wears the same clothes - unifs, and only their color identifies gender. Each has a number written on it. In fact, the people living here are not citizens either: everyone calls each other like that - numbers.

It is worth noting that Zamyatin wrote "We", a summary of which we are now considering, in 1920. Since the parallel with Soviet reality is clearly traced in the novel, the book, of course, was not published in our country during the life of the writer.

Next we learn that D-503 is one of the talented scientists, a great mathematician who, like many other residents of the United State, is working on the creation of INTEGRAL - a spacecraft that will soon have to go with the crew for the exploration of distant planets. Zamyatin wrote “We”, the summary of which you are now reading, so that it is impossible not to believe in the terrifying future of the world. The United State is fenced off by the Green Wall, behind which the so-called savages live - people who remained there after the Great Bicentennial War.

Everyone here has the opportunity to have sex with any other number of the opposite sex - you just need to take a special pink coupon. Most often, D-503 meets with O-90, a short, puffy girl. The protagonist lives like this - according to the schedule regulated by the Tablet of Hours, until he meets I-330 - a revolutionary who, along with some other residents of the United State, is going toblow up the Green Wall to break free. At first, D-503 thinks this is nonsense, and finds the woman terribly unpleasant. However, gradually, unexpectedly for himself, he develops a feeling for I-330 that he has never experienced before - love.

How did Zamyatin finish “We”, the summary of which we have almost finished reading? D-503 together with I-330 and with other revolutionaries achieved what they wanted. The wall was blown up, the numbers saw savages for the first time in a long time, chaos ensued in the United State. Some managed to escape - there, to freedom. However, all those who managed to be detained (among them the main character) are subjected to the Great Operation, which deprives the imagination. Those who were the main organizers of the explosion, including I-330, are executed with the Gas Bell.

You have just read the "We" summary. Zamyatin put his whole soul into this work, and therefore it is simply necessary to get acquainted with it in its entirety in any case.