ENG 2132 Lecture Notes - Green Wall, Utopia
28 Feb 2014
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Zamyatin writer"s function to be a heretic". We: both a dystopia and an anti-utopia: anti-utopia because it is enforced. Zamayatin did not believe in the possibility of utopia: d-503 as an unreliable narrator: a narrator account that his distorted, faulty, biased. We are meant to be able to tell this. Their version of events differs from the understanding of the events of the author and the reader. (d-503 is basically brainwashed we can hear this in his accounts of the one state. Even in the beginning when he has only one perspective, his perspective is opposite to what we believe. (p. 30 dreams are a psychic disease (d-503). To have freedom is to be a criminal (d-503): the one state as a society operating on scientific principles and by means of rigid control. Everyone can see everyone else at all times except for when you book a sex session, then you may close the blinds.
