Dystopian Journal: Topic C

How powerful/believable is the author’s vision?
What hope or alternative does the author give us?
Zamyatin gives us hope in the possibility to live outside the society as in We people are able to live outside the wall to avoid the society and people from in the society are able to escape out of it to the world outside the wall. Zamyatin gives us hope or an alternative by the option of separating yourself from society to avoid it controlling you. This option seems bleak but logical if you take yourself out of society you take yourself out of its control and influence.
Zamyatins vision is really powerful but it is not really believable people are to unwilling to allow class structure to be done away with. People like feeling superior to each other because it makes them confident in whom they are because they believe that they are better than someone else. Zamyatin’s visioin while not very believable is very powerful because of the ever advancement of technology and the risk it places on people. The farther technology advances the more control it has on people either their dependence or it us to watch and control them such as in the use of video surveillance and GPS tracking. This powerful vision of using technology for complete control such as in the “Great Operation” may not be realistic in its open use on everyone but the possibility of technology reaching a stage of something that extreme is realistic in our future.

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