Imagination was officially classified as a mental illness.
Day 3 · 목표 ⭐
The discovery that some citizens still possessed imagination led the One State to offer surgery to remove it, framing freedom of thought not as a right but as a pathology requiring cure.
2Reading· 오늘의 본문
We · Yevgeny Zamyatin · 1924
The encounter with I-330 was a crack in the perfect glass of my existence. Until then, my life was a predictable equation, solved daily by the Table of Hours. But she was different. Her smile was not a prescribed curve; it held secrets. She spoke of ancient music and forbidden places beyond the Green Wall. With her, a strange, unsettling warmth spread in my chest—a feeling I had no name for. It was as if a dormant, diseased part of my mind, my imagination, had been violently awakened. For the first time, I saw the sterile walls of the One State not as protection, but as a cage. I-330 didn't just show me a person; she showed me a world I was never meant to see.
B2 · 128 wordsavg 25.6 w/s
The protagonist's meticulously regulated psyche undergoes its first seismic shift upon meeting I-330, an event that catalyzes the dangerous reawakening of emotion and imagination, pathologies ruthlessly suppressed by the One State. Where the State demands uniformity, I-330 embodies dissonance—her knowing smile and subversive questions act as a solvent on the crystalline logic of his conditioned world. This encounter is less a simple meeting and more an inoculation of chaos. The nascent, unnamed feelings she stirs—longing, curiosity, desire—are precisely the symptoms of the 'disease' the State seeks to eradicate. Through her, he experiences not just attraction but a fundamental epistemological rupture; he begins to perceive the State's utopian harmony as a form of sensory and intellectual deprivation. I-330, therefore, represents the antithesis to the State's project, proving that the human capacity for irrational feeling and imaginative thought cannot be fully excised, only driven underground, where it festers and grows more potent. What makes We endure as a work of literature is precisely this refusal to offer easy consolation — it demands that readers sit with the discomfort of a world that does not resolve neatly, and find their own position within it.
C1 · 170 wordsavg 34.0 w/s
3Vocabulary· 핵심 어휘 & 연습
classified
분류되다
Imagination was officially classified as a mental illness by the One State.
possessed
소유하다, 지니다
The discovery that some citizens still possessed imagination terrified the authorities.
surgery
수술
The State offered a surgery to remove the imagination.
framing
틀을 짜다, 규정하다
They were framing freedom of thought as a pathology.
pathology
병리, 질병
Individual thought was considered a pathology requiring a cure.
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.