{"id":4719,"date":"2015-02-05T17:17:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T22:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=4719"},"modified":"2016-02-01T14:14:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T19:14:47","slug":"we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/02\/05\/we\/","title":{"rendered":"WE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The book,\u00a0<em>WE, by Yevgeny Zamyatin,\u00a0<\/em>was about a Mathmatician who fell in love with a Women\u00a0in a state which had no\u00a0freedoms\u00a0and life was bounded by working for the\u00a0collective. \u00a0In the book, people wore the same clothes, marched the same way, given similar names(D-503) and were expected to work at maximum strength.<\/p>\n<p>This book struck me in several ways. The setting struck me\u00a0in that it reminded me of the early years of the Soviet Union where the state had promoted the goal of working for a common goal: a state rid of exploitation and class division. This state promoted a sense of sameness where no one would deviate away from the collective. \u00a0Anyone who would did deviate from these ideals would be seen as an enemy of the state. \u00a0In the book,\u00a0We, D-503 meets a woman named I-330, who doesn&#8217;t believe in the rules of the system. \u00a0In Record Six, she stated that &#8220;to be original means to somehow stand out from others. \u00a0Consequently, being original is to violate equality&#8230;&#8221; ((Yevgeny Zamyatin.\u00a0<em>We.\u00a0<\/em>Translated by Natasha Randall. New York: Modern Library, 2006, 27)) \u00a0This struck me because in the Soviet Union, everyone worked for the collective. \u00a0Everyone worked hard to accomplish goals as one. \u00a0No one was able to create or accomplish things no their own. \u00a0As I-330 puts it, the very fabric of originality would violate the very ideals of equality both in the book and in the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>In a way, this book paints a picture\u00a0of how life in the Soviet Union\u00a0following the Revolutions of 1917 and the\u00a0Civil War were supposed to be. \u00a0The Communist party strove for a society \u00a0where individuals like I-330 were harmful to society and the people would work collectively to help push the state forward.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book,\u00a0WE, by Yevgeny Zamyatin,\u00a0was about a Mathmatician who fell in love with a Women\u00a0in a state which had no\u00a0freedoms\u00a0and life was bounded by working for the\u00a0collective. \u00a0In the book, people wore the same clothes, marched the same way, given &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/02\/05\/we\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110561],"tags":[22721,70980,110624],"class_list":["post-4719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hist254-archive","tag-soviet-union","tag-we","tag-yevgeny-zamyatin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}