How We can relate to our literature definitions.

Style: I believe Zamyatin uses short, concise sentences in order to relay back to us as readers that D-503 is not a thinker of his own. He uses basic, simplistic sentences and often refers back to math as a solution.

Tone: Zamyatin keeps a very serious tone throughout the novel. He does not try and lighten the mood with frivolous jokes or any type of incident that may make the reader laugh. Sometimes when D-503 is with I-330 he takes a more dramatic tone.

Irony: When D-503 talks about I-330 he hates her, he goes on and on about hating her, yet very ironically he finds himself falling in love with her.

Plot: The whole point of the novel so far is to explain how even in a perfect world there are clearly marked imperfections. When D-503 interacts with I-330 and deceives what he believes is the all mighty it is part of the plot.

Characterization: When D-503 explains and describes himself and others he leaves out clear details so that you can picture someone, but he rarely includes much so that you can picture them as an individual. This is to make them seem much like robots.

Setting: This novel takes place in a futuristic world where people are told what to do, freedom is rare, and those who try and rise against are clearly eliminated. It is a place filled with glass so that it appears you are always looked after.

Point of view: Since the novel is written in first person I really feel we get a sense of how their world operates, and what an average person feels like in this society. We clearly embarks a new way of thinking into someone who has never lived in this type of world.

Symbol: When D-503 talks about the irrational thoughts he always calls the the square root of -1, this always make me wonder how he was brought to think this way. It symbolizes his society, the irrational thoughts, anything that fails to make itself mathematically understandable.

Theme: Part of We's main theme is to capture a world in which freedom is hated, where if you are abnormal society will punish you, this is all about the conspiracies that lie in our society today.