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Yevgeny Zamyatin's We is a novel that offers a utopian society built purely on mathematical precision and statistical logic. While many contend it was an inspiration to Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984, one would be hard pressed to argue Zamyatin was not similarly inspired by Swift's Gulliver's Travels. One would be hard pressed to argue it was not simply because the rational-based utopia presented here is nearly identical to Swift's portrayal of the Houyhnhnms and their ration-based society. Zamyatin is similar to Swift in that each writes a story that is purported to be an improvement over the conventional societies in which they lived. However, neither author suggests that their "utopia" is a possibility in reality because the systematic ration-based societies they portray do not gel with human nature. Zamyatin saw the potential for abuse in the Bolshevik revolution and the socialist-communist organization of society. As the author says with We: "This is where we are going. Stop while there is still time. Throughout the poetry and the mockery, there is great warmth�for Russia, for man�and profound grief over the particularly intense ordeals they were to suffer in our century of terror, so uncannily foreseen in the novel. [Zamyatin] seems to be saying to all the dogmatists, all who attempt to force life into a rigid mold: You will not, you cannot prevail. Many will not be destroyed" (Zamyatin xv).

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e State is an attempt to eliminate all flaws from society. Like Swift, the author satirizes with a heavy dose of irony, such as his argument that the original state was naive enough to allow humans to breed at will, instead of imposing some kind of rational order on the process of procreation, "And wasn't it absurd that the state (it dared to call itself a state!) could leave sexual life without any semblance of control? As often and as much as anyone might wish�Totally unscientific like, like animals. And blindly, like animals, they bore their young. Isn't it ridiculous: to know agriculture, poultry-breeding, fish-breeding (we have exact information that they knew all this), yet fail to go on to the ultimate step of this logical ladder�child-breeding; fail to establish such a thing as our Maternal and Paternal norms" (Zamyatin 14). The ancient God or state was flawed. In that state the questions of truth and the right manner of living were prone to error. There were no absolutes, i.e., no rule-book or manual for how to exist individually and as a collective society. Therefore, the new One State has resolved these problems by basing its "Bible" so-to-speak on the principles of mathematics. In this manner, One State has d

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