When D-503 fell in love with I-330, his perfectly ordered mathematical mind began to generate irrational thoughts, which he called a soul, and for the first time he felt truly alive.
2Reading· 오늘의 본문
We · Yevgeny Zamyatin · 1924
D-503's life in the glass city was a perfect equation. Every action followed the Table of Hours, every thought was a rational calculation. The transparent walls reflected a world of flawless, sterile order, where individual desire was an unknown variable. He was a loyal integer in the great arithmetic of the One State. But then, I-330 entered his field of vision. Her smile was an irrational number, impossible to calculate. Suddenly, the clear glass felt like a cage. The straight lines of his daily walk seemed to curve. For the first time, he saw not just function, but form and color. The immutable schedule now chafed, and the silent hum of the city's machinery began to sound like a prison hymn. His ordered world, once so certain, was now filled with disturbing, beautiful questions.
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In Yevgeny Zamyatin's dystopian novel *We*, the protagonist D-503 initially embodies the zenith of the One State's logical utopia. His existence within the glass city is a testament to imposed order, where transparency enforces conformity and every facet of life is mathematized. The narrative angle of his daily routine underscores this suffocating precision; his movements are vectors, his thoughts algorithms, all dedicated to the collective organism. This sterile harmony, however, is violently disrupted by his encounter with I-330. Her very presence introduces a catastrophic variable into his personal equation. The love she incites acts as a solvent, dissolving the crystalline certainty of his worldview. What emerges is not mere rebellion, but the birth of consciousness itself—a 'soul' he perceives as a sickness. The glass, once a symbol of pristine order, becomes a mirror reflecting his newfound fragmentation. His story thus pivots on the moment the architecture of pure logic is found to have a fatal flaw: it cannot account for the irrational, poetic geometry of human emotion, which proves to be a more fundamental and disruptive force than any external threat to the State.
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3Vocabulary· 핵심 어휘 & 연습
ordered
질서 정연한, 정리된
His perfectly ordered mathematical mind was his pride.
irrational
비합리적인, 비이성적인
He began to generate irrational thoughts, which terrified him.
generate
(생각 등을) 발생시키다, 생성하다
His mind began to generate strange, new ideas.
soul
영혼
He called these new feelings a soul, a concept foreign to the One State.
alive
살아있는, 생생한
For the first time, he felt truly alive, not just functioning.
Activity 1 · 빈칸 채우기5 questions
1. Every hour of D-503's life was carefully ____ by the Table of Hours.
2. The ____ of privacy did not exist in the One State.
3. Individual names were ____ and replaced with numbers.
4. The glass walls guaranteed there was no ____ for citizens.
5. The State was ____ declared to represent perfect happiness.