ind, turn your back on her…’” The forced abandonment of a goal Evgeny Vasilich has worked so hard for leaves him depressed and lethargic, not wishing to endure life. He is soon devastated by typhus, dying at home.Zamyatin’s early Utopian novel, WE, follows forty journal entries in the life of D-503, the builder of the Integral, a vessel which will bring undeveloped worlds the knowledge of the One State. When he becomes involved with I-330, his world of math and logic turns upside down and fills with the irrationalI-330 is an anarchist intent on bringing down this “perfect” world and reintroducing reality. She and the Mephi, some of whom live beyond the Green Wall which separates nature from the One State, attempt to hijack the Integral and stop its mission, though the plan fails. I-330 seductively convinces D-503 that the utopia is corrupt, and though he believes at first, D becomes confused and returns to the Benefactor, the leader, after the Green Wall is bombed. The rebels are put down and sent to the Machine, where they will die.I-330 has made it her life’s work to destroy the Benefactor and his standard world. On the Day of Unanimity, when all vote for the Benefactor, she arranges that many also vote against him, voting instead for the better that could exist. “‘Do you understand —I do not know, no one knows —tomorrow is the unknown! Do you understand that everything known is finished? Now all things will be new, unprecedented, inconceivable.’” As the next day dawns, however, nothing has changed. However, I-330 is very ambitious and makes another attempt by trying to hijack and hold the Integral hostage, which also fails, more miserably than the other. The final try destroys much of the present situation. “‘Do you realize? —the Wall, the Wall was blown up! You...
