Topic C

Topic C- What does the author criticize in the novel? How believable is the author’s vision? What other possibilities does the author present?

Yevgeny zamyatin criticizes communism and how the government controls people. He wrote this book also to criticize stalinism. He grew up in a time where there was a lot of coruption and those ideals are being presented in this book. It's pointing out that if the government takes over too much that the citizens are going to suffer.

With zamyatin's book, it is easy to picture a society such as this one. This situation, the society is controlled by math, which is a symbol of how everything is strict and there is only one right way to do everything. Also they are all being excluded from the outside world which woould shelter them from outside thoughts therefore giving the government more power. this resembles what stalin and other radical leaders did to the inhabitants and that is what Zamyatin is trying to critiize with his book We.

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