Rough draft for dystopian group

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Zamyatin uses the symbol of the Great Operation to show how, in the most extreme manner, the civil liberties of citizens can be eliminated for the sake of happiness and security. When D-503 is speaking to a patient; “Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign- the divine minus” (Zamyatin 184). The patient uses a euphemism, in the creole of the One State that could be taken to mean that absolute happiness and personal freedom are mutually exclusive. The minus sign in this euphemism represents the lack of personal liberty (more specifically imagination). Absolute happiness is the desired state which all individuals should strive to achieve. Thus in order to achieve the desirable state of happiness, individuals within a society must surrender personal liberty. Zamyatin reuses the symbol of the Great Operation later in the book. After the failed attempt to seize the integral; “[…] everyone was to report for the operation” (Zamyatin 206). The quote uses the word “everyone” in order to emphasize the fact that no citizen can choose to escape the Great Operation. The passage also uses very forceful verb choice, ”was to,” in order to emphasize the fact that citizens cannot decide to not have the surgery performed; they have lost that right. In conjunction, this shows that citizens have completely surrendered all personal liberties to the state for the sake of happiness and internal security, thus dangerously upsetting the balance between liberty and security.