Summary Of 'We' By Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Often times in literature, two opposites are used together in order to make a comparison and emphasize a point. In We, the author, Yevgeny Zamyatin does this by using opposites such as freedom and criminality to discuss OneState’s control over the city. While the main character D-503 is talking to a member of the Guardians, he begins thinking about the crimes that I-330 has committed and contemplates turning her in. In his journal, D-503 writes, “freedom and criminality are..indissolubly linked…When a man’s freedom is reduced to zero, he commits no crimes” (Zamyatin 36). OneState, the totalitarian regime that rules over the city has one main goal and that is to maintain absolute power over its people. They take all action necessary to

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