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In the face of fear, people can do things that they never thought they would do. Winston Smith and Julia were “in love” in a place where it wasnt allowed, where you could be punished for love. It was a crime. Winston and Julia snuck around behind security, thinking they were going unnoticed by Big Brother. Although, Big Brother had known from the start. The lovers were caught and brought to be tortured. An analysis of love and fear shows it is hard to maintain humanity when approached/tortured with your greatest fear.
No matter the amount of love you have for someone, fear can conquer love. Fear can control people, it can weaken people. “In the face of pain there are no heroes” (Orwell 1984). This quote explains what happens to Winston and Julia while they were being tortured. It didn’t
matter how much the two claimed to “love each other” they each still threw the other under the bus, thinking they were sacrificing their lover instead of themselves. Everyone has a fear and would risk others the same way Winston and Julia had.
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If it had been true love between Julia and Winston, there possibly could've been a different outcome.
Orwell’s quote “but you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred” (Orwell 1984) describes the situation between Julia and Winston. I don't believe either of them knew what true love was, they couldn’t see the difference from love and lust. In the book Winston’s feelings towards Julia were always changing. In the beginning he had hated her, wanted to murder her. Towards the middle of the book he began to warm up to her and show feelings towards her. He thought of the feelings as love although I think he truly only felt lust towards Julia. That feeling of lust was not enough for him to take the torture for Julia. He cared more about his well
being. Winston’s hatred towards Big Brother couldn’t beat his fear, even though the hatred had grown so large. Beating Big Brother would mean he would have chosen death by his biggest fear, rather than surrender. Orwell said “If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result, you’ve beaten them.” (Orwell 1984) This refers to Winston and Julia wanting to feel something, lust or love in a place where such thing was not allowed. His relationship with Julia was act of rebellion against Big Brother. I believe that was Winston’s intention in the beginning of his relationship between him and Julia, to rebel. Although when they were caught, with all the hatred he had built up against Big Brother, he had still lost against them. Fear is greater than love, it can conquer love and control people, and scare a person to their breaking point. It’s human nature to want to hide from your fears, run as far away as possible. Sometimes love can interfere with the feeling of fear. Although in this case, it didn’t. Fear conquered.
When an emotion is believed to embody all that brings bliss, serenity, effervescence, and even benevolence, although one may believe its encompassing nature to allow for generalizations and existence virtually everywhere, surprisingly, directly outside the area love covers lies the very antithesis of love: hate, which in all its forms, has the potential to bring pain and destruction. Is it not for this very reason, this confusion, that suicide bombings and other acts of violence and devastation are committed in the name of love? In Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, the reader experiences this tenuity that is the line separating love and hate in many different forms and on many different levelsto the extent that the line between the two begins to blur and become indistinguishable. Seen through Ruth's incestuous love, Milkman and Hagar's relationship, and Guitar's love for African-Americans, if love causes destruction, that emotion is not true love; in essence, such destructive qualities of "love" only transpire when the illusion of love is discovered and reality characterizes the emotion to be a parasite of love, such as obsession or infatuation, something that resembles love but merely inflicts pain on the lover.
Winston expresses his feelings towards Julia in such an extraordinary way, “He would flog her to death with a rubber truncheon. He would tie her naked to a stake and shoot her full of arrows.”(Orwell 15). When he is expressing these thoughts, he is actually talking about someone he was actrate to, Winston just had no way of expressing it besides anger. He sees this beautiful young girl, who has made this vow its remain pure and chaste and he just wants to kill her because of how frustrated about it. Although late in the book, who these same two people are alone in a place without worry, everything is different, for example “You are prepared, the two of you to separate and never see one another again. ‘No!’ broke in Julia….’No,’ he said finally.” (Orwell 173) This second moment gives us a definite second opinion about how he may actually feel towards Julia. When they are both in a safe place, and can freely state and do they things they wish to do, Winston does show that he cares for Julia, enough that he does not want to leave her. I believe that these two different feelings show us that even with the body trying to control how people feel, what they do, along with what they think they never get to have complete control of
Catherine Barkley is Frederick’s true love. “I felt damned lonely and was glad when the train got to Stresa…I was expecting my wife…” (Hemingway 243-244). This quote shows the physical and emotional yearning that Catherine inspires in Frederic. This desire for her is what helps him through the war. Eliezer’s love, on the other hand, is directed towards his father.
George Orwell has created two main characters that have conflicting traits: believe in the idea of love in a world where it is forbidden. Although both are secret rebels of the Party and share the same hatred for the Party’s totalitarian power, Julia and Winston display a remarkable number of differences between each other. The differences between them include their morality, their motivation towards the rebellion, and their personalities. Julia represents elements of humanity that Winston does not: survival, instincts, pure sexuality and cunning (1984 By George Orwell Character Analysis Julia). Her actions show the lack of an emotional connection to anyone, even Winston.
Prior to meeting Julia, Winston frets constantly about life and essentially has nothing to look forward to. Julia’s arrival into his life not only gives him
...ing love for someone separate from the Party makes the Party vulnerable, because the passion that existed between the two formed an alliance between lovers, as opposed to allegiance to the Party. In a totalitarian state the goal of the party is to brainwash humans so that the only emotion they have is towards the government and its leader. In both 1984 and Soviet Russia, we see totalitarian societies that eliminate human qualities such as thoughts and emotions. In both cases, the societies function best without love because they have full control over their people. Thus, the existence of love and relationships is the most detrimental thing to a totalitarian regime.
“Love and hate are two sides of the same coin” (anonymous). While these emotions are thought of as positive and negative respectively, they are really just different forms of passion. Passion drives everyone to make decisions in their life, and love and hate are the most common forms of passion. Everyone experiences love and hate and is prisoner to the reactions that these elicit from them. Emotions simply happen, and while they can be hidden or covered up, they cannot be consciously changed by the victim. People cannot control the emotions they feel, but they often choose to work towards intensifying their hate or love once they know they are experiencing it. Although these emotions are encountered by everyone at one point or another, they are misunderstood by society and usually accepted as opposites. Though love and hate are often thought of as antonyms, Nathaniel Hawthorne, in his novel The Scarlet Letter, examines how they are fundamentally the same because of their intimacy and the power with which they shape people and society.
Yet, Winston and Julia commit this forbidden crime of love to rebel against the Party’s ideals. Their relationship begins as an act of rebellion but soon blossoms into a fulfilling love for one another. They take enormous risks to be together despite the consequences the two can endure. A strong bond can save someone from the hatred they feel, whether it be towards themselves or others. Specifically, Winston’s love for Julia only becomes stronger the more he spends time with her. He begins to feel carefree and satisfied in a society of conforming, emotionless people. Orwell illustrates the affect of love when he writes:
To start off, Orwell's sole inclusion of women who base their relationships with men exclusively on sex demonstrates Orwell's negative beliefs about women. Despite Julia's claims to love Winston, their relationship is not about “the love of one person, but the animal instinct”(132). Julia has been in similar relationships to her and Winston's “hundreds of times”(131), relationships that look only at the sexual side and never at the emotional. She refuses all of Winston's attempts to expand their relationship, having “a disconcerting habit of falling asleep”(163) whenever he persists in talking. And although Winston cares for Julia more than he cares for Katharine, Katharine also bases her relationship with Winston completely on sex. When Winston reflects on their time together, he thinks, “he could have borne living with her if it had been agreed that they remain celibate... It ...
Within this passage from George Orwell’s 1984, O’Brien gives a speech to Winston regarding the future and purpose of the Ingsoc government. The intended dehumanization of all members of society is expressed in O’Brien’s speech through the use of similes, repetition, and imagery.
Which until now Winston made it seem like it was virtually impossible and made me think that she may still be a spy trying to lure him into breaking the law. However this doesn't really hold up because if the party thinks someone will break the law they can kill or enslave them for thought crime. Which makes me think that she does in fact love him and over the next few chapters the love becomes mutual between Julia and
In 1984, Winston wants to love Julia, but it is wrong for them to have feelings for each other. Whereas in Brave New World, Lenina is upset because John does not have the same feelings for her. Likewise in both novels, it is strange to love another person. Winston feels a connection to O’Brien because he feels like they can rebel against the Party together. It’s so strange to care about people other than yourself in both dystopian novels, that no one does for example O’Brien turns Winston into the thought police. Ironically, Winston goes to the Ministry of Love to get tortured for being in love. However, in Brave New World the citizens don’t get tortured, loving is just frowned upon. Neither of the novels showed families or how families impacted
There are a few different methods that can be used by a ruler to control his people, fear and love being the primary means of maintaining power as defined by Machiavelli. While both fear and love have their strengths and weaknesses, there is one of the two that is more effective: fear. Of course, there are examples of both in history and literature alike, such as Julius Caesar, whose people adored him for his brave acts in war, though betrayed by his fellow politicians and beloved friend for fear of his growing power.
Throughout the novel, 1984, the audience gets to see the development of a relationship in a totalitarian government. A relationship sparked amongst Julia and Winston. Due to the binding force of the totalitarian government, the relationship was built upon corruption and betrayal. When Julia informed Winston that she had sex with an abundant number of people, Winston was incredibly joyful. "That was above all what he wanted to hear. Not merely the love of one person, but the instinct, the simple undifferentiated desire: that was the force that would tear the Party to pieces" (Orwell 126). To this, Winston didn’t care about love, whereas he only cared about rebelling against the party, and taking the party down. In addition, Winston and Julia
Emotions, something we all feel everyday. From happy to sad from loved to feared, these emotions drive us to do things everyday. This leads us to Machiavelli, a staunch defender of totalitarianism and he is famous for his work, the Prince. The Prince was a guideline to how a prince should lead his state. Machiavelli states, “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” A prince is better feared than loved because fear will give him more authority and fear lasts longer than love. A prince will have more authority over his people because when a prince is feared and he sets his rules people will do their best to avoid violating these rules. There are several things we fear. We fear pain, we fear suffering, we fear failure, and we fear death. According to Statisticbrain.com, 68% of America fears death.