Although there are many other interpretations of Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, Zamyation presents his dystopian society as a criticism of the mass production by presenting the extremes of its methods. In Zamyatin's novel, the citizens are merely a piece of the One State's enormous assembly line. The extremes of scientific management are shown in the novel; one example being the Table of Hours, which regulates all the citizens' lives. Although this view does not seem to be too realistic, it was when We was written in 1916. During that time, the world experienced massive industrialization, which would make We seem like a greater possibility. Zamyatin was probably influenced by his work as a naval engineer for Russia and England, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. The hope that Zamyatin subtly displays is something that is innate to all human beings: social rebellion. We can see characters, such as I-330 and D-503, that rebel against social norms and discard their chains to the One State machine. This characteristic hints that humans aren't meant to be cogs in a machine or part of a collective, but they are all individuals. This would be a fatal flaw in a society that requires the uniformity of humans.
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