We Analysis

The One State is essentially a single giant city, the only one left in the whole world. It is defined both by what's in it and by what lies outside of its walls. Inside, everything is serene and cl...

D-503 is our narrator. We see everything from his point of view and never deviate from it. No one else gets to write in his journal, which is supposedly what we're reading. And yet it sometimes see...

Any story showing the course of future events is science fiction almost by default, and in that sense We is very easy to identify. More precisely, it is an early example of the dystopia story, depi...

We see everything from D-503's perspective, and his feelings and beliefs color every aspect of the narrative. He is endeavoring to present things as clearly as he can, but we're very aware of his o...

D-503 starts the book writing in a very crisp, clinical writing style. He's not devoid of emotion, he doesn't really consider himself and individual and thus tries to speak the will of the One Stat...

The title is direct and self-evident, much like the story surrounding it. "We" infers a collective—a group of people defined by common terms—which is basically what the One State is all about....

Ah, the ending. A bit of a sucker punch for the "we hope D-503 turns out okay" crowd, but nothing unexpected if you know your dystopian fiction. D-503 gets subjected to the operation and transforme...

You know that weird exchange student in your class? The one who was great at advanced calculus, but who seemed to think that you could talk in mathematical terms and still have everyone understand...

"Everything Is Awesome!"The initial situation is a society at peace. An evil, soulless, mathematically constipated society at peace. D-503 is happy with his lot as a factory approved meat computer...

"Anticipation Stage and 'fall' into the other world."In this case, we're talking about a sort of voyage and return in reverse: the hero starts the book under the spell of the State, and gradually...

The first act sets up the rules of this future society—the way these people live and the world they have made—as well as the basic threads of conflict. In this case, it starts with Record 1 an...

Despite the West's view that We might be communist propaganda, The Soviet Union had serious objections to the book and refused to let the author publish it. (Source)If you notice, all of the female...

There's lots of sex in this book. Unfortunately for the pervs in the audience, it's kind of art-house sex, in that it serves the greater themes of the story instead of fulfilling anyone's need to r...

There's no specific literary or historical references in the book, though there are quite a few Biblical references (cited as "ancient mythology" in the book).R-13 makes references to Adam and Eve...