Human Nature in Utopia Zamyatin’s We

Anticipating some Soviet Union developments, Evgenii Zamyatsin''s We (1920) is a futuristic dystopic novel in which D-503, builder of the first rocket ship, extols the glories of the Single State and discovers another way of life beyond his highly controlled society. From the newer field of biopoetics, which applies evolutionary psychology to art instead of emphasizing the social construction of h...