Option A

Every Morning … we lift our spoons to our mouths (Zamyatin 12)

Through this passage written by D-503, we see how things are run in the One State. Everything is dictated through the Table of Hours which states when they eat, when they go and take walks, and everything else and everyone follows the same routine. As D-503 wrote in a previous passage, he no longer thinks of people (or numbers in this case) as “I” but rather “We”. Everything is mathematically controlled and nothing is questioned, just done. Most of the residents in the One State seem to enjoy the system and seem to not think much of it. They are also monitored very closely and they are controlled for every little aspect of their lives, right down to their “sexual days”, giving each person a pink coupon to give them permission to close their blinds to allow some privacy from the transparent walls. Also because of the Green Wall, which isolates the numbers from the world outside of the glass dome of the one state, the inhabitants know nothing of the world outside of their mathematical realities and so they accept what they have and live their life day by day.

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