Introduction
The life people live and the practice they do are reflected by writers. The writing of these scholars can make the society change either negatively or positively. Many Russian works showed failure in transforming human beings as we shall see in the discussion. To help the society understand its values clearly and in sense of positive morale, the literature should have a mind of changing the people’s bad behavior and lead them into a better one. The artist should provoke strongly positive and not negative reactions. But looking in the context, many artists do not write to educate but to give their own understanding of the society, this has been contributed by the factor of freedom of writing.
Moscow to the End of the Line
The novel was written by Erofeev in 1970. The book was intended for humor and commentary in social life. The book explains about how the cable fitter was fired after sending out graphs accidentally to the people he works with. The graphs were about productivity of their work compared to the alcohol they consume.
The book also talks about the drunken journey of venichka who takes Moskovskaia – Gor -skoskavia train to visit his child and a lover in Petushki. On the way he meets and chats with other passengers about drinking, their sad experiences in the country, philosophy, Russian literature and old war in Norway. (Marc, 1999)
The novel shows how they continued drinking on the way and became drunk and it ends by writing on how Venichka is murdered by some group of people. Erofeev was a cable fitter who lived under Soviet Union, according to his friends, the book was written to entertain his colleagues as they worked in a society full of alcoholism at that time. This was controversial as the writer himself was alcoholic though the book does not expose him to this. By writing this book he seems to escape his personal reality.
The novel also shows that the character, Venichka, was well educated and very religious but because of the society, he was forced to drink to exploit his creativity. Also the reader finds out that the main character does not enjoy drinking but he uses this way as a means of escaping his miserable reality of life, although in the soviet union it’s not a satire but was a cry from the character’s heart. Venichka is seen as a hopeful character but the situation is hopeless. The writer did show that through drinking one can escape the reality and can find some humor in it. The writer also shows that the journey was restless and hopeless; he didn’t give the society a hopeful future but gave them a negative picture. On the way as the characters were declaring war on Norway, it gives a picture that the society did support the civil war in the neighboring country. (Marc, 1999)
The Novel as we have seen creates a negative picture in the society. The book encourages drinking in the society as way of escaping the reality. Alcoholism also leads to idleness, immorality, murderer, and can also lead to various diseases like cancer.
The Trials Begins
The novel was written by Siniavsky after his freedom from the arrest. The artist composed his work to initiate people by using his statements.
During the Soviet rule, there was a monopoly party that ruled the country. The rule of monopoly party banned all other parties. It was its mandate to arrange trials; it imprisoned or ensured the opposition leader went into exile. (Marc, 1999)
The party had power over the government by controlling the government, controlled the judiciary, secret police, armed forces and the economy – soviet union also imposed the monopoly ideology and the educational system and artists were allowed to participate in this process of creating a picture in the society of importance of monopoly kind of rule. The society on the other hand was to learn about the historical events and memorize all the good and bad people in the history of the country, events and other things which happened in the history of Russian. The leaders were materialistic at that time they had to spend what was of the society. The writer of this book should have written about realism, he should link the present society and the future life of human beings. The theme of the book should also consider the impact the monopoly kind of rule will lead people to. (Marc, 1999)
The artist looked different way about Totalitarian way of life in that society, he remarked on his own interests or intelligent discipline, his own life experiences, sensitivity, audition within the prevailing limits at that time. He described the nightmarish life when the Stalin was ruling and this marked his novel concentrate on Stalin regime where they were under the dictatorship of the monopoly party. He makes the reader concentrate only on life at that time without looking into the future.
We
The book was written by Eugene Zamiatin in the year 1959. He lived under soviet regimes. The book is all about totalitarianism and its impacts on human beings, it talks about the wearing off of love, names and imaginations of human beings, it continues by talking about the increase in bloodshed and the suffering of human beings.
The book gives a brief history of Zamiatin and life which exposes him as a supporter of revolution in the year 1910. After publishing this book it led to persecution in some extends which led Stalin make him leaves the country. The novel in the sense was written in his own personal experiences with Russian way of revolutions as was seen in the year 1905 and also 1917. It was also based on his life at Newcastle and his work in Tyne during the World War I. In Tyne, there was more rationalism of work than in any other place.
The artist shows changes in culture, economy and socio-political institutions. The book depicts that totalitarianism and the development of the industry in current society are like a free will which causes unhappiness in the society. The book also gives pictures that human life should be controlled by mathematical precision. He showed that everything made of glass will lead to transparency and give a good society. (Yevgheny, 2003)
He reduced human beings into mathematical equations and wanted to give a picture of the future society where free hours will be eliminated. He showed that human beings will work on the same timetable all over the world.
Also the dystopian society depicted in the novel will lead to one state people who will be given names on combination of numbers or letters. Zamiatin showed that the future society will be nightmarish and of no equality without giving the reader solutions of what to do in order to live comfortably. To transform human beings one should give a solution and the writer of this book should have done this way. (Yevgheny, 2003)
Conclusion
The writer should be aware of life at that time and the effect it will have in future before writing any book. The theme which comes out should bring a positive response into the society. Looking at these three writers they based their literature on their own intellectual understanding. They didn’t focus on the future human being and also they didn’t free the working or whole mankind from the York of Soviet Union. When focusing the future human being they pictured him as a busy person without any free hour of rest. The support of alcoholism in the society is shown by Erofeev which will make people escape the reality of drinking. They will also use alcohol as way of humor.
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