7/2/2023 0 Comments Zamyatin![]() ![]() All construction within is also of glass, both a technological achievement and a means of ensuring every citizen may be observed. OneState is a single city, surrounded by an impenetrable glass wall, the Green Wall. Why does D-503 consider OneState perfect? It is the twenty-sixth century OneState is two hundred years old, and followed two hundred years of war that killed the vast majority of Earth’s population. But D-503’s journal turns out to be, without his intent, a journal of his awakening. He decides to simply record what he sees around him, because what he sees is the “mathematically perfect life of OneState.” To speak of it is to herald its perfection. D-503, along with other members of the citizenry, has been ordered by the Benefactor to create intellectual cargo for INTEGRAL, to be delivered to inhabitants of other planets in order to propagate the ideology of OneState. D-503 is a citizen of OneState, under the absolute rule of, apparently, one man, the Benefactor. He is a mathematician and the Chief Engineer of a spaceship, named INTEGRAL, being prepared for imminent launch to explore Venus, Mars, and beyond. ![]() ![]() We is written as a journal of sorts, the stream of consciousness of a man named D-503. I warn you now, this entire review is one big spoiler. ![]()
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