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Municipal educational budgetary institution

secondary educational school in the village of Amzya, Neftekamsk city district

Literature lesson in grade 11

On this topic

"The development of the dystopian genre in the novel

E. I. Zamyatina "We". The fate of the individual

In a totalitarian state

Prepared by the teacher

Russian language and literature

Fayzullina Gulnaz Mukhametzyanovna

2011-2012 academic year

Goals

1. Definition of the genre of utopia and dystopia
2. Show the skill of E. I. Zamyatin, the humanistic orientation of the work, the assertion of human values.
3. Development of analytical abilities of students.

Equipment: slides, printed texts, excerpts from the novel.

Epigraphs for the lesson:

(Slide 1)

During the classes

1. Introduction to the purpose of the lesson.

You read the novel by E. I. Zamyatin “We” at home. In the last lesson, we got acquainted with the history of the creation, publication of the work. Today we will analyze it.. We will try to answer the questions that probably arose.

1. Checking homework. 2 groups of students prepared messages on the topics "utopia" and "dystopia" (Slide 2)

Since ancient times, people have dreamed that someday the time will come when there will be complete harmony between man and the world and everyone will be happy. This dream in literature was reflected in the genre of utopia (the founder of the genre is T.Mor). The authors of utopian works depicted life with an ideal state system, social justice (universal equality). Building a society of universal happiness seemed to be a simple matter. Philosophers argued that it is reasonable enough to structure an imperfect order, to put everything in its place - and here is an earthly paradise for you, which is more perfect than heaven.

Dystopia is a genre that is also called negative utopia. This image of such a possible future, which frightens the writer, makes him worried about the fate of mankind, for the soul of an individual.The purpose of utopia is, first of all, to show the world the path to perfection, the task of dystopia is to warn the world about the dangers that await it on this path. Anti-utopia exposes the incompatibility of utopian projects with the interests of an individual, brings the contradictions inherent in utopia to absurdity, clearly demonstrating how equality turns into leveling, a reasonable state structure - a violent regulation of human behavior, technical progress - turning a person into a mechanism.

What genre do you think E. Zamyatin's novel belongs to: utopia or dystopia?

All responses are heard.

1. Analysis of the novel. The fate of the individual in a totalitarian state.

one . Analysis of the title of the novel.

The novel is called "We". Why do you think it is so named? What is the meaning of the author in this title?

Students provide answers. Sample answers:“we” is the state, it is the mass; the individual loses its meaning, everyone is the same, in the same clothes, they think the same way, everything is subject to a strict schedule that cannot be violated.

The title of the novel reflects the main problem that worries Zamyatin: what will happen to man and humanity if he is forcibly driven into a "happy future". "We" can be understood as "I" and "others". And it is possible as a faceless, solid, homogeneous something: a mass, a crowd, a herd. Zamyatin showed the tragedy of overcoming the human in a person, the loss of a name as the loss of one's own "I".

2. Analysis of composition, plot. How is the novel structured? What is its composition?

These are diary entries. Story within a story.

Why did the author choose this way of narration? What does it serve?

To convey the inner world of the hero.

Let's look at the structure of the One State. What institutions does it include? How to control the lives of citizens. Everything is subject to control. Up to such intimate spheres of life as the intimacy of a man and a woman and the birth of children.

Now I will ask you to make tables. The first group will write the concepts that make up "we", the second - "I"

Sample tables

(Slide 3)

It should be noted that numbers live in the United State, the heroes do not have names. Main character - D-503

The confrontation between "we" and "I" is the plot of the novel. It is very difficult to turn a person into a cog in the state machine, to take away his uniqueness, to take away from a person the desire to be free, to love, even if love brings suffering. And such a struggle goes on inside the hero throughout the novel. The form of diary entries helps to look into the inner world. "I" and "we" coexist in it at the same time. At the beginning of the novel, the hero feels that he is only a part of "we" "... that's right: we, and let this "We" be the title of my notes." But Zamyatin managed to convey the difficult psychological process that takes place inside the D-503.

1. Psychologism in the novel.

A group of guys had to write a psychological description of the hero using quotes. Let's see what they got.

“I, D-503, builder of the Integral - I am only one of the mathematicians of the United State.

I defeated the old God and the old life.

This woman had the same unpleasant effect on me as an indecomposable irrational term accidentally wormed into an equation.

An idea came to me: after all, a person is arranged just as wildly ... - human heads are opaque, and only tiny windows inside: eyes.

I felt fear, I felt trapped.

I unfastened myself from the earth and as an independent planet, rotating furiously, rushed down ...

I became glass. I saw - in myself, inside.

There were two me. One I am the former, D-503, and the other ... Previously, he only

sticking his shaggy paws out of the shell. And now the whole one was crawling out ... And this

the other - suddenly jumped out ...

It's so nice to feel someone's keen eye, lovingly protecting from the slightest mistake.

We went two - one. The whole world is a single immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we have not yet been born, we are joyfully ripening ... everything is for me.

Ripe. And inevitably, like iron and a magnet, with sweet obedience to the exact immutable law - I merged into it ... I am the universe. … How full I am!

After all, I now live not in our rational world, but in an ancient, delusional one.

Yes, and fog... I love everything, and everything is resilient, new, amazing.

I know that I have it - that I am sick. And I also know that I don't want to get better.

Soul? This is a strange, ancient, long-forgotten word ... Why no one has it, but I have ...

I want her every minute, every minute, always to be with me - only with me.

... a holiday - only with her, only if she is there, shoulder to shoulder.

And I picked up I. I tightly pressed her to me and carried her. My heart was beating - huge, and with each beat it poured out such a violent, hot, such a joyful wave. And let there be something shattered to smithereens - all the same! If only to carry it like that, carry it, carry it ...

…Who are they"? And who am I myself: “they” or “we” - do I know.

I am dissolved, I am infinitely small, I am a point...

There was a terrible dream, and it ended. And I, the coward, I, the unbeliever, - I was already thinking about self-willed death.

It was clear to me: everyone is saved, but there is no salvation for me, I do not want salvation ...

“You probably have a drop of forest blood… Maybe that’s why I…”

No one hears me screaming: save me from this - save me! If

I had a mother - like the ancients: mine - that's exactly the mother. And so that for her - I do not

The builder of the "Integral", and not the number D-503, and not the molecule of the One State, but a simple human piece - a piece of her own - trampled, crushed, thrown away ... And let me nail or they nail me - maybe it's the same - so that her old woman's, wrinkled lips - -

I think I've always hated her, from the very beginning. I fought... But, no, no, don't believe me: I could and didn't want to be saved, I wanted to perish, that was dearest to me than anything... that is, not to perish, but that she...

…and where does your finite universe end? What's next?

Have I ever felt—or imagined I feel it? No nonsense, no ridiculous metaphors, no feelings: just facts. Because I'm healthy, I'm perfectly, absolutely healthy. I smile - I can’t help but smile: some kind of splinter was pulled out of my head, my head is light, empty.

The next day I, D-503, came to the Benefactor and told him everything I knew about the enemies of happiness. Why might this have seemed difficult to me before? Unclear. The only explanation: my former illness (soul).

... at the same table with Him, with the Benefactor, - I was sitting in the famous Gas room. They brought that woman. She had to testify in my presence. This woman was stubbornly silent and smiling. I noticed that she had sharp and very white teeth and that it was beautiful.

She looked at me... looked until her eyes closed completely.

And I hope we win. More: I'm sure we will win. Because the mind must win."

Which feeling is stronger than "we"? Love. It is love that helps the hero find himself. What other spiritual values ​​does the hero approach? To religion, he wants to have a mother.

"We" wins. But we do not experience a sense of relief, joy. What feelings did you have while reading the novel? Imagine yourself as citizens of the United State.

What would you dislike in the first place in such a world?

The answers may vary.

So, the One State, its absurd logic in the novel is opposed by the awakening soul, that is, the ability to feel, love, suffer. The soul that makes a person a person, a person. The United State could not kill a person's spiritual, emotional beginning. Why didn't this happen?

Unlike the heroes of Huxley's novel "Brave New World", programmed at the genetic level, Zamyatin's numbers are still living people, born by father and mother and only brought up by the state. When dealing with living people, the United State cannot rely only on slavish obedience. The key to the stability of citizens is to “ignite” with faith and love for the state. The happiness of numbers is ugly, but the feeling of happiness must be true.

A person who has not been completely killed is trying to break out of the established framework and, perhaps, will find a place for himself in the expanses of the Universe. But the protagonist's neighbor seeks to prove that the universe is finite. The Unified State Science wants to enclose the Universe with a Green Wall. This is where the hero asks his main question: “Listen,” I pulled my neighbor. - Yes, listen, I tell you! You must, you must answer me, but where does your finite universe end? What's next?

Throughout the novel, the hero rushes between human feeling and duty to the One State, between inner freedom and the happiness of unfreedom. Love awakened his soul, his fantasy. A fanatic of the One State, he freed himself from its shackles, looked beyond the bounds of what was permitted: "And what's next?"

I will consider how the attempt to resist violence ends in the novel.

The rebellion failed, I-330 hits the gas bell, the main character undergoes the Great Operation and coolly watches the death of his former lover. The finale of the novel is tragic, but does this mean that the writer does not leave us hope? I note: I-330 does not give up until the very end, D-503 is operated on by force, O-90 goes beyond the Green Wall to give birth to his own child, and not a state number.

1. Summarizing.

The novel "We" is an innovative and highly artistic work. Having created a grotesque model of the One State, where the idea of ​​a common life was embodied in “ideal lack of freedom”, and the idea of ​​equality was embodied in universal leveling, where the right to be well-fed required the renunciation of individual freedom, Zamyatin denounced those who, ignoring the real complexity of the world, tried to artificially “Make happy of people".

The novel "We" is a prophetic, philosophical novel. He is full of anxiety for the future. It sharply sounds the problem of happiness and freedom.

As J. Orwell said: "... this novel is a signal of the danger that threatens man, humanity from the hypertrophied power of machines and the power of the state - no matter what."

This work will always be relevant - as a warning about how totalitarianism destroys the natural harmony of the world and the individual. Such works as "We" squeeze slavery out of a person, make him a personality, warn that one should not bow before "we", no matter how lofty words surround this "we". No one has the right to decide for us what our happiness lies in, no one has the right to deprive us of political, spiritual and creative freedom. And so we, today, decide what will be the main thing in our life - “I” or “we”.

1. Homework.

Answer the questions:

What does Zamyatin warn about with his work?

Dystopia Dystopia is a direction in fiction and cinema, in a narrow sense, a description of a totalitarian state, in a broad sense - any society in which negative development trends prevail.

The meaning of the title of the novel "We" in the novel means the One State, which is a utopia. This is a state where there is only a "herd" feeling and lack of formalization of personal qualities, a person does not exist as a person and unconsciously coexists with others like him. The pronoun "We" after the publication of the novel began to have a negative meaning ...

The conflict between “we” and “I” WE I The power of the United State State of freedom Guardians Bureau Love Hourly Tablet Emotions Green Wall Fantasies State newspaper Creativity Institute of State Poets and Writers Art Mathematically unmistakable happiness Family, parents, children Unified State Science Beauty Stability Religion Mind Soul , spirituality Music plant Unorganized music Ideal lack of freedom Attachments Equality Originality Child-rearing Sexual relations)))

Female and male images in the novel In general, the male characters in the novel "We" are more rationalistic, straightforward, have a less persistent character, they are characterized by reflection and hesitation. It is I-330 and O-90 - strong characters - who do not hesitate to oppose the United State, in contrast to the reflective male numbers, despite the fact that both heroines are completely different in psychology, appearance, and life goals.

Religion in the novel “Those two in paradise – were presented with a choice: either happiness without freedom – or freedom without happiness; the third is not given, They, boobies, chose freedom - and what: it's understandable - then for centuries they yearned for fetters. and only we again guessed how to return happiness .... The benefactor, the car, the cube, the gas bell, the Guardians - all this is good, all this is majestic, beautiful, noble, sublime, crystal clear. Because it protects our lack of freedom - that is, our happiness. The Benefactor himself demonstrates the monstrous logic of the One State, drawing a picture of the crucifixion before the imagination of the trembling D-503, he makes the protagonist of this “magnificent tragedy” not the executed Messiah, but his executioner, correcting the mistakes of a criminal individuality, crucifying a person in the name of universal happiness.

Conclusion All the same, "We" won. D-503 agreed to the "operation". He calmly watched as I-330 died in a gas bell, his beloved ...

What does the author warn his contemporaries and descendants about? The novel "We" is perhaps the most unusual work that I have read. And this unusualness does not lie in the form of the narration, which is conducted from the protagonist; and not even that instead of names, the author gave each character his own specific set of letters and numbers; and in a terrible and unfair ending ("... I'm sure we will win. Because the mind must win").

The beginning, too, is by no means a cloudless picture. We see a hero in whom only his work, his favorite mathematics, evokes emotions. The only value for him is the United State, which dictates certain rules to everyone, it takes control even of the private life of numbers. The whole life of the city is subject to an exact schedule, a strict order (“As always, the Musical Factory sang the march of the United State with all its pipes. In measured rows, four by four, enthusiastically beating the time, there were numbers - hundreds, thousands of numbers, in bluish unifs ...”).

The only right that numbers have is the right to be punished for violation of the order.

In my opinion, the laws of the One State contradict the life of people: they speak of equality, and the “cult of personality” reigns in the city, the Benefactor has unlimited power, he is revered and exalted as God; people talk about freedom, while they themselves live in a cage; they laugh at the feelings that agitated the hearts of their ancestors, but they themselves have never experienced anything like this.

To show the absurdity of the depicted world, the author mentions the Bureau of Guardians, and the execution of the recalcitrant, and pink cards. If we look closely, we can recognize some features, albeit in a grotesque form, of Soviet Russia. I think Zamyatin was afraid that everything was going to the picture he described, that everyone would lose their individuality, their face (“... being original is violating equality ... and what was called “being banal” in the language of the ancients, we mean: only do your duty").

There are two storylines in the novel: the hero is his beloved and the hero is the United State. And the whole plot is based on the opposition of mind and heart, duty and feelings.

Despite the fact that the J-330 showed him a different, happy world, helped him feel alive and free (“... I felt above everyone, I was me, separate, the world, I ceased to be a term, as always, and became a unit”) ; in this struggle, the soulless state "machine" won. Of course, this happened because of the constant doubts of the hero, because of the fear of losing his measured calm life. But what fills life? Isn't it excitement, feelings, tears or laughter, joy? And if we lose the ability to feel: to hate or love, we lose ourselves, our soul. And the author, in my opinion, wanted to say that we trust our heart, because it always prompts correctly.

And the main idea that Zamyatin wanted to convey to the reader, perhaps, is that there is no ideal world, because human life is a striving for perfection. And when this desire is taken away, we lose the meaning of life.

In his article "New Russian Prose", Yevgeny Zamyatin called "fusions of fantasy and reality" the most promising form of literature. The vague time of a revolutionary turning point, when Bulgakov's run to nowhere is heard with a booming clatter, but for some reason, can only be reflected in the crooked mirrors of fantasy, until it is replaced by the time to collect stones. Otherwise, the authors run the risk of distorting the image of the era, because the big is seen only at a distance, and if it is not there, then correctly assessing the scale is an impossible task. Therefore, in 1921, Zamyatin confirms his idea and writes. By the way, he is one of the first to do this in the world, and in the USSR he became a pioneer at all.

The author argued that dystopia is a social pamphlet dressed in the artistic form of a science fiction novel. He described his novel "We" as "a warning about the double danger threatening humanity: the hypertrophied power of machines and the hypertrophied power of the state." It would be a mistake to claim that Zamyatin wrote the dystopia as a protest against the revolution and Soviet power. His warning is aimed at helping the new world to beware of excesses and extremes, from which it is a stone's throw to a totalitarian dictate over the individual. Such a future did not fit into the formula “Freedom. Equality. Brotherhood.", so the author was not against this principle, but, on the contrary, wanted to preserve it. Tough, inhuman, equalizing measures for the sake of centralizing life in the country frightened the writer. Gradually, he came to the conclusion that without criticism and dispute, the existing political order, created with good intentions, would “tighten the screws” even more. If the war of liberation ends in enslavement, then all the sacrifices are in vain. Zamyatin wanted to continue to defend the right to freedom, but on the ideological front, at the level of dialogue, not a rally. However, no one appreciated the sincere impulse: the next tsars attacked the "anti-revolutionary" and "bourgeois" writer. Naively, he thought that discussion was still possible without instant condemnation and cruel persecution. The author of the novel "We" paid dearly for the mistake.

In the center of the state of the future is the crown of the creation of technical thought "Fire-breathing INTEGRAL". This is a symbolic image of the new power, which completely excludes the category of freedom. From now on, all people are only the technical staff of the Integral, its elements and nothing more. Absolute power is embodied in an impeccably cold and impassive technique, which, in principle, is not capable of feelings. Machines are opposed to people. If now a person adjusts gadgets for himself, then in the future they change roles. The machine “reflashes” the person, setting its own parameters and settings. As a result, an individual is assigned a number, a program is introduced, in accordance with which lack of freedom = happiness, personal consciousness = illness, I = we, creativity = public service, and not “the shameless nightingale whistle”. Intimate life is issued according to coupons in accordance with the “Table of Sexual Days”. You must come to the one who took the coupon for you. There is no love, there is a duty, provided for and calculated by the wise state apparatus.

Collectivity and technology became the fetishes of the revolution, and this did not suit Zamyatin. Any fanaticism disfigures the idea, distorts the meaning.

“Even among the ancients, the most mature knew: the source of law is strength, law is a function of strength. And now - two scales: on one gram, on the other - a ton, on one "I", on the other - "we", the United State. Isn't it clear: to admit that "I" can have some "rights" in relation to the State, and to admit that a gram can balance a ton, is exactly the same thing. Hence - the distribution: a ton - rights, a gram - duties; and the natural path from insignificance to greatness: forget that you are a gram and feel like a millionth of a ton ... "

Casuistic arguments of this kind are taken from the revolutionary ideology of that time. In particular, “forget that you are a gram and feel like a millionth of a ton…” is practically a quote from Mayakovsky.

The leitmotif of the novel is the agony of rationalism, its deification, which destroys the soul and suppresses the personality. Isolation from nature, from human nature, brings death to society. The image of the Green Wall, which separates the perfect world of machines and calculations from the "irrational world of animals and birds", demonstrates the horror of global control. It is so easy to rob a person, slander the world around you and impose false ideals that it becomes scary to turn on the TV and listen to advice given in a commanding voice.

In his review, another dystopian George Orwell wrote:

“The Benefactor's Machine is a guillotine. In Zamyatin's Utopia, executions are commonplace. They are performed publicly, in the presence of the Benefactor, and are accompanied by the reading of laudatory odes performed by official poets. The guillotine is, of course, no longer a crude colossus of bygone times, but an improved apparatus that literally destroys the victim in an instant, from which a cloud of steam and a puddle of clean water remain. Execution, in fact, is a human sacrifice, and this ritual is permeated with the gloomy spirit of the slave-owning civilizations of the Ancient World. It is this intuitive disclosure of the irrational side of totalitarianism - sacrifice, cruelty as an end in itself, adoration of the Leader, endowed with divine features - that puts Zamyatin's book above Huxley's book.

"We" E. I. Zamyatina novel. For many millennia, a naive belief has been living in the hearts of people that it is possible to build or find a world in which everyone will be equally happy. Reality, on the other hand, has always been not so perfect that there were no dissatisfied with life, and the desire for harmony and perfection gave rise to the genre of utopia in literature.

Observing the difficult formation of the young Land of Soviets, foreseeing the cruel consequences of its many mistakes, perhaps inevitable when creating everything new, E. Zamyatin created his dystopian novel “We”, in which back in 1919 he wanted to warn people about the dangers that threaten humanity under the assumption of hypertrophied power of machines and the state to the detriment of a free individual. Why dystopia? Because the world created in the novel is harmonious only in form, in fact, we are presented with a perfect picture of legalized slavery, when slaves are also charged with the obligation to be proud of their position.

E. Zamyatina's novel "We" is a formidable warning to all who dream of a mechanical remake of the world, a far-sighted prediction of future cataclysms in a society striving for unanimity, suppressing personality and individual differences between people.

In the guise of the United State, which appears before us on the pages of the novel, it is easy to recognize two future great empires that made an attempt to create an ideal state - the USSR and the Third Reich. The desire to forcibly reshape citizens, their consciousness, moral and moral values, an attempt to change people in accordance with the ideas of those in power about what they should be and what they need for happiness, turned out to be a real tragedy for many.

In the United State, everything is calibrated: transparent houses, oil food that solved the problem of hunger, uniforms, a rigidly regulated daily routine. It seems that inaccuracies, accidents, omissions have no place here. All the little things are taken into account, all people are equal, because they are equally not free. Yes, yes, in this State, freedom is equated with a crime, and the presence of a soul (that is, one's own thoughts, feelings, desires) is equated with a disease. And they are strenuously fighting with both, explaining this by the desire to ensure universal happiness. It is not for nothing that the Benefactor of the United State asks: “What did people - from the very cradle - pray, dream, suffer about? About someone telling them once and for all what happiness is - and then chaining them to this happiness on a chain. Violence against a person is masked under the guise of caring for people.

However, objective life experience and examples of history, with which the turbulent 20th century was especially rich, showed that states built according to such principles are doomed to destruction, because freedom is necessary for any development: thought, choice, action. Where, instead of freedom, there are only restrictions, where the independence of individuals is oppressed in an effort to ensure universal happiness, nothing new can arise, and stopping the movement here means death.

There is another topic raised by Zamyatin at the beginning of the 20th century, which is especially consonant with our current environmental problems. The state in the novel "We" brings the death of the harmony of life, isolating a person from nature. The image of the Green Wall, which tightly separated the "machine, perfect world - from the unreasonable ...

the world of trees, birds, animals, ”is one of the most depressing and sinister in the work.

Thus, the writer prophetically managed to warn us about the problems and dangers that threaten humanity with its mistakes and delusions. Today, the world of people is already experienced enough to be able to independently assess the consequences of their actions, but we see that in reality a person often does not want to think about the future, deriving the maximum benefit from the present. And sometimes I get scared from our carelessness and short-sightedness, leading to disaster.

The writing

E. I. Zamyatin wrote his dystopian novel “We” in 1920. In the center of the work is a description of the state that has achieved the utopian idea of ​​communism and socialism. All the inhabitants of this society have only "numbers" instead of names.

The protagonist of the novel is D-503. It is on his behalf that the story is told about the life of the society of the distant future. D-503 writes a diary, thanks to his notes the reader can imagine how he lives, thinks, feels an ordinary representative of the society of the future.

It turns out that in the new society everything is brought to automatism. People don't look like people anymore. They are more like machines acting strictly on command. At the basis of all their behavior are the instructions of the great Tablet. They wake up, fall asleep, eat, drink, walk only on command at strictly defined hours. The intimate life of the residents occurs only according to the schedule and only with the person who is recorded specifically for him. Only during an hour of intimate contact are these people allowed to lower the curtains in their see-through glass houses.

The state tries to completely control the life of its citizens. They must think right, feel right. Naturally, it is easy to assume that any free-thinking is simply unacceptable here.

But Zamyatin's "numbers" are still living people, born by a father and mother and only brought up by the state. When dealing with living people, the United State cannot rely only on slavish obedience. The happiness of "numbers" is ugly, but the feeling of happiness must be true. Consequently, the task of the totalitarian system is not to completely destroy the personality, but to limit it from all sides: movements - by the Green Wall, lifestyle - by the Tablet, intellectual search - by the Unified State Science, which never makes mistakes.

From the very beginning of the novel, we are not talking about people, but about “numbers” - this is extremely immoral and cruel. But there is an explanation for this in the United State: “There is nothing happier than numbers living according to the harmonious eternal laws of the multiplication table. Neither hesitation nor delusions". Everything bright and good is denied, including love. From the point of view of the United State, love is a disease.

I believe that the whole novel is one big warning to the zealous builders of communism. And not only communism. After all, any utopian idea is utopian because it is not capable of existing in reality. It is impossible to make everyone equal and happy. To do this, you need to kill everything human in people, destroy the soul. It turned out that Zamyatin's novel was also a very true prediction. Although the work was written in 1920, the author foresaw the terrible times of Stalin in Russia and Hitler in Germany. These rulers "built happiness" at the cost of human lives and freedom.

So in the work, the inhabitants of the city are building the Integral. It is a symbol of absolute happiness for everyone. This happiness consisted in "unbending a wild curve, straightening it along a tangent - an asymptote - along a straight line. Because the line of the United State is a straight line. The great, divine, precise, wise straight line is the wisest of lines ... ".

It becomes scary from the attitude “everyone should be happy”. And the "unhappy" will be forced: "If they do not understand that we are bringing them mathematically infallible happiness, our duty is to force them to be happy."

As the hero later found out, the system "won't let anyone out of its clutches." Dissenters will be punished, severely punished. They are either destroyed or subjected to the "Great Operation". The main character, who rebelled, did not want to hush up the truth and continue to obey the system, is placed on the operating table and "pulled out of his head some kind of splinter."

Zamyatin wanted to warn his contemporaries and descendants what life under the yoke of totalitarianism could lead to. The work was written in the first post-revolutionary years. But, unwittingly, Zamyatin turned out to be a visionary. Therefore, the novel "We" was originally written as a warning, but it also became visionary.

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