As such, citizens (called “ciphers”) live under the oppressive, hyper-watchful eye of government-appointed police offers called Guardians.
The Benefactor believes that the freedom of individuals is secondary to the welfare of the State. D-503 writes his records to be read by the conquered alien civilizations so that they might have a better understanding of the values and history of their new authoritarian overlords.Ī God-like, cruel dictator known as the Benefactor rules over the One State. D-503 works as a mathematician and engineer, and is the lead designer of the Integral, a rocket ship the One State will use to travel to alien planets to spread the doctrine of complete subservience to the government and an absolute reliance on logic, mathematics, and rationality to govern public life.
The action takes place in the distant future in the One State, a civilization ruled over by an authoritarian government. I will also discuss the metafictional aspects of the novel and the effect of first-person narration on the production of this text.We unfolds over the course of 40 “Records” written by the novella’s narrator, D-503. In this paper, I will focus specifically on the protagonist of the novel by discussing the role of writing and language in the rebellion of the protagonist. The protagonist not only records rebellion, but the act of writing/composition is inextricably tied into the resistance it accompanies. D-503, the main protagonist, begins a journal that records his rebellious activity and movement towards individuality. Summary/Abstract: In Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, the protagonist resists the regime in which he lives by engaging in writing/composition. Published by: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Tuzli Keywords: writing subversion dystopia Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Russian Literature, Theory of Literature
Writing the Self: Writing as Power in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We Author(s): Demir Alihodžić Writing the Self: Writing as Power in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We
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