Friday, November 11, 2011
We- Commentary
I did not enjoy We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. The characters were not deep at all. They had no true human emotion and there was no way to attach myself to the main character, D-503. However, when the math equations that plague the novel were stripped away, the basic elements of a tragic love story unfolded. I began to see the classic elements that make a up romance; a man falls for a woman and risks everything to have her. Of course, as a tragedy demands, the man and woman are separated in the end. This makes the story worth while to read, however it must be deciphered amongst the mathematical nonsense that runs through the mind of a seemingly mad man. D-503 is an extremely shallow character, even as he begins to feel love. He is only skin deep in his emotions, as are the women in his life. They are nothing but ditzy people who feel almost nothing.
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Though I was not fond of the math in the novel either, there are reasons behind the why D-503 is so shallow. In the society, emotions are not something that are common, so the few emotions that are found are extremely raw and primal, which is why D-503 appears shallow. Though the emotions may appear to be skin deep, this is all that D-503 knows, and these emotions never get the chance to break through the math that plagued his for so long.
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