MODELING OF THE MAN FROM THE ONE STATE IN THE NOVEL “WE” BY Y. ZAMYATIN

Abstract

The subject of this study is the portrayal of the human in the One State – his depersonalization and transformation into a means for achieving the “idealsˮ of a totalitarian society. The fictional world in the novel reflects the modern conception of the infinite mechanical Universe, governed solely by physical laws. Technological civilization introduces a mechanistic principle, hostile to humanity, and the means of manipulating human consciousness become ever more powerful and global. The idea of collectivism was born, which suppresses and destroys the individual, turning them into a “cogˮ in the vast mechanism of the State. The novel “Weˮ is a response to the total pressure of the ideological “monophonyˮ proclaimed by the Russian Revolution of 1917, and resonates with present dystopian literature, which warns: the danger of totalitarian regimes has not disappeared.