The idea of losing one’s humanity due to increased digitization, or regimentation, is a central theme in this novel. I wrote this essay in my sophomore English class in response to Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We. We has been hearkened back to throughout the 20th century as the book that started the genera of the futuristic novel with a cataclysmic future, often as a result of humanities own mistakes.In one of my recent posts, I mentioned the idea of losing one’s humanity as a result of living in a hyper-digital age… It immediately made me think of this essay I wrote three years ago. We not only functions as a true political commentary, but also as one of the first Dystopian novels to be written. Zamyatin uses these parallels as a way to show his displeasure at the tearing down of the Orthodox Church, and instead being replaced with icons of Socialism, and Communism in the new Soviet Union. We draws many parallels with the Old Testament, and the Genesis story because of the process of creation of the One State. She like Christ, preaches something completely new and different from the acceptable societal norms. I-330 could be seen as a savior figure, or a Christ like figure. D-503 soon discovers that she has a true soul, and almost follows her to the end before he figures out that she is only using him to get to the space-ship.

She is the first person that D-503 meets who has true ideas about individuality, and personal freedoms. She smokes, drinks, and wears different clothes, but most importantly she does not believe in the complete socialism that the One State enforces. I-330 is a women who does not fit any of the accepted social norms of the One State. D-503 believes in the socialism that the One State preaches to all of it’s citizens, however as in all Dytopian novels he has a major change of heart when he meets the beautiful I-330. D-503 the narrator, and the main protagonist is a faithful follower of the Benefactor, or the leader of the One State. The book is a commentary about the new socialist movements in Russia brought to the extremes in the One State. Auditorium-112 was his cell number from his time in jail. The first being that it draws so much from Zamyatin’s own experiences such as his naming of the auditorium. We, is remarkable for a number of reasons. Yevgeny Zamyatin’s Dystopian Future novel We, is one of the greatest works of science fiction.