The novel We written by Yevgeny Zamyatin deals with the complex relationship between D-503 and the wild and mysterious I-330. I-330, a woman with a rather vague background and life, begins meeting with D-503 and seduces him into falling in "love" with her. All the while that D-503 is becoming attracted to I-330, she is only using the poor man for her own personal gain and for her secret organization, who are trying to gain access to the Integral which D-503 is building. The real question is, was D-503 really in love with I-330 or was it just infatuation. I believe that is was not real love and even he knew it. During the time that I-330 began visiting with D-503, he said he hated her only became obsessed with her after she started their sexual relationship. D-503 was never given the opportunity to experience real raw emotion and was most likely confused with the difference between love and lust. I do not believe you can base a loving relationship purely on lust, and his feelings for I-330 are only excitement for he knows she is dangerous. D-503 is naive and not aware that she is just simply using him and is affected by this in the end. Their love is not true and on page 225 D-503 says, "They brought in that woman. She was supposed to give her testimony in my presence. The woman was stubbornly silent and kept smiling. I noticed that she had sharp, very white teeth, and that this was very beautiful." This is to show that D-503 never really knew her, only her body and beauty, which is the only memory of her he can conjure up. Had their love been real he would have remembered her by name and not have used a more disconnected words "woman" and "her". In the end of the novel D-503 is worse off than when he met I-330 and this is proving the terrible effects of toxic love on a person, unhealthy relationships can really destroy one's emotional state and have horrible repercussions. D-503 by the end is in a disillusioned state of mind and is once again living in his false reality, only now he is even more confused, just like once a person leaves a bad relationship.
I think the novel We as a whole was an interesting read. I liked the complex relationship between D-503 and I-330, and reading about D-503's struggle to find emotion.
