George Orwell, the author of the book 1984, makes the confusing relationship between Winston and Julia very important. The Party does not only work to enforce language and history, but love too. The Party works to demolish all physical sensations of love, and bans sex to the point where it is referred to as a "duty to the Party". At the time, the Party has demanded that all love and loyalty be only towards for Big Brother and the Party. The great and fulfilling bonds between the parents and children are broken, due to this ‘law’. Even beyond that, children are most commonly to be reporting their parents to the Thought Police. The Party believes that there is no such room for love unless that love is directed with to Big Brother and the …show more content…
city of Oceania.Winston had suffered through the Party's removal of personal enjoyment in relationships in his failed marriage with a woman named Katharine. When he soon finds Julia, Winston opens up to the freedom of being able to love someone in both a physical and emotional way. Winstons seeming rebellion is so very much influenced by the Party, which included characters Mr. Charrington,the Brotherhood (a mysterious group that is entitled to overthrow the Party) , and O'Brien but the what so called relationship he has with Julia is not. Winston was only able to rebel against the Party through the affair he had with Julia, even though in the end the love is destroyed, which you will soon find out how. Starting since the beginning, when Winston first laid eyes on Julia and feels a dislike, their relationship soon builds up.
He was torn to to believe to trust Julia or not. Orwell had made to believe that Julia was part of the Thought Police, this resulted in Winston second-guessing who Julia really is. After Winston receives a message from Julia ; “I love You.”, they start their affair but carefully watching for the Party and their surveillance.During the 2 Minutes of Hatred, of course Winstons reaction to Julia was hatred. Julia is much free to yell during this 2 Minutes of Hate, which indeed Winston finds attractive. Little more towards the book, Winston is terrified, when Julia starts following him. Signs of stalking, influences the reader that Julia has more devotion for Winston and would do anything to approach love. Little more after this terrifying event for Winston, they both hold hands, and Winston soon catches feelings for Julia. Above the Antique Shop, they carry on with their life a deceptive family:they are playing in a role of rebellion. Burst of feelings rage for the both of them when they lay in bed together and Winston is happy as can be. As Winston and Julia were living their rebellious ‘relationship’, they get caught by the Thought Police. They are both scared for life and are both thinking to themselves , how are they going to say goodbye, and what is going to happen to them from here on …show more content…
out. Winston and Julia pursue a more rebellious and selfish relationship.
They indicated by the government that love is wrong and is thought of as a crime, but nothing stopped them, not even the possible consequences.The fact that Julia and Winston exercise their abilities of individual thought disobeying Big Brother's authorities was the ultimate act of rebellion. Orwell is trying to tell us that their relationship wasn’t true love but an act of rebellion. Winstons way of ‘loving’ Julia was the idea of being able to rebel. For the longest time, he still has not betrayed Julia, so he can think of himself as a ‘good’ person. Yet, later in the book, he did betray Julia by telling O’Brien to hurt Julia instead of him after they were caught by the Thought Police. If you were to love someone so much, you would not do that to them,
never. At the end of the book, Winston sells Julia out when they are caught by the Thought Police, and she as well rats out Winston too. O’Brien was to blame for their hate for one another. Winston admires O'Brien much more by the end of the novel than he had ever loved Julia.
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
George Orwell creates a dark, depressing and pessimistic world where the government has full control over the masses in the novel 1984. The protagonist, Winston, is low-level Party member who has grown to resent the society that he lives in. Orwell portrays him as a individual that begins to lose his sanity due to the constrictions of society. There are only two possible outcomes, either he becomes more effectively assimilated or he brings about the change he desires. Winston starts a journey towards his own self-destruction. His first defiant act is the diary where he writes “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER.” But he goes further by having an affair with Julia, another party member, renting a room over Mr. Carrington’s antique shop where Winston conducts this affair with Julia, and by following O’Brien who claims to have connections with the Brotherhood, the anti-Party movement led my Emmanuel Goldstein. Winston and Julia are both eventually arrested by the Thought Police when Mr. Carrington turns out to be a undercover officer. They both eventually betray each other when O’Brien conducts torture upon them at the Ministry of Love. Orwell conveys the limitations of the individual when it comes to doing something monumental like overthrowing the established hierarchy which is seen through the futility of Winston Smith’s actions that end with his failure instead of the end of Big Brother. Winston’s goal of liberating himself turns out to be hopeless when the people he trusted end up betraying him and how he was arbitrarily manipulated. It can be perceived that Winston was in fact concerned more about his own sanity and physical well-being because he gives into Big Brother after he is tortured and becomes content to live in the society he hated so much. Winston witnesses the weakness within the prole community because of their inability to understand the Party’s workings but he himself embodies weakness by sabotaging himself by associating with all the wrong people and by simply falling into the arms of Big Brother. Orwell created a world where there is no use but to assimilate from Winston’s perspective making his struggle utterly hopeless.
In George Orwell’s 1984, where strictly regulated rules is what generates this society, and any disregard for these rules ends in unimaginable punishment. Winston and Julia’s love for each other, however unconventional it is, is greatly beneficial for not only the participants, but also for O’Brien, and particularly for Big Brother itself. This passion for each other, seemingly inextinguishable, is later on taken into account by the Inner Party, finally resulting in not only complete obedience and conformity from Winston and Julia, but also in a peace of mind for these two characters.
As Winston Smith comes to the last of his punishment he is put into room 101. This is a room of extreme punishment the punishment through your biggest fear. Know as “the worst thing in the world.” Winston gets his worst fear, rats, right in front of him and cracks, he loses the one thing he still loves that now is taken away from him, Julia. This ending is not happy and nothing you would wish on the life of Winston. Yet is there optimism? To some extent there is.
For example, Winston describes the sexual act as “if successfully performed, was a rebellion,” which implies that the reason love is banned is because it is powerful enough to form a “rebellion,” because it shows independent thought and the ability to choose and be happy. Moreover, in The Hunger Games, Rue’s death acts as a turning point for Katniss in which she realises that she must rebel. After witnessing Rue’s death she “decorates her body with flowers,” which is frowned upon within the Games because flowers represents natural beauty, so Katniss is making beauty out of the ugliness of Rue’s murder. The flowers are metaphors for the allegiance and friendship that Katniss and Rue shared, which is strictly forbidden in the Games since they are supposed to be
Even though Nelly and Edgar have different perceptions of Catherine’s ways, there may be some truth and valid points to each character’s opinions. Catherine, a defiant woman, has shown dominance for most part of the plot and gets her own way by displaying means of aggression and emotional breakdown. However, there comes a time when Catherine seizes her dominating ways and her mannerism changes and appears docile; which establishes her double standard nature.
Love is an emotion affecting people's everyday lives. In the book “1984,”, George Orwell introduces his readers to this idea, with a compelling portrayal of this important feeling. In Orwell’s totalitarian society of Oceania, the ruling party attempts to demolish all love for anyone except Big Brother who controls them. The affection that normally exists between individuals, in Oceania, warps to exist between individuals tortured and those torturing them. This is demonstrated by familial bonds and affection between siblings, wives, mothers, fathers and children, changing and creating an opportunity for the government to monitor its citizens. In contrast the interactions between the main character, Winston and his oppressor, O'Brien exhibit true love. Real connections between regular human beings in Oceania are virtually non existent due to actions taken by the government to destroy these bonds.
George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, portrays a dystopia in which it is wrong to love; which Winston then uses as his method of rebellion as he creates romantic relations with Julia, a more hidden rebel. The moment after Winston and Julia have been intimate, Winston reveals “Their embraced had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act,” (Orwell 126). Although the act of sex is shown to bring couples closer, Winston reveals this is not the case for him, for him, it is merely an act of upheaval towards the Party. Likewise, Gilliam’s film, Brazil also shows a similar act of love as Sam Lowry has dreams about falling in love with a girl, who we later know as Jill Layton. Near the end of the movie, the audience sees that both Sam and Jill are captured by government officials while lying in bed together, (Gilliam), an act of rebellion similar to that of Winston’s. It becomes apparent that the right to express oneself through acts of love is considered the ultimate act of insurgence within these dystopias. The real world is no exception to this. As Atilano proves in Garcia’s article, he does all that is possible to be able to seem a hero to his family, “I wondered about the process of overcoming fear of death for the common good. ‘When does someone decide that life becomes secondary to a
The Party is a totalitarian government. Neither the Outer Party nor the proles (proletariat) have any influence on the direction of their country or the rules that govern their lives. The Inner Party manipulates the media and infiltrates citizens' private lives to gain complete control over every aspect of human existence, including love and sex. When the propaganda, deprivation, and rigid guidelines
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 ...
Love is an underlying theme in the novel. Love can be seen as nonexistence in this totalitarian society. The marriage between Winston and Katherine was a disastrous one because they were only married for fifteen months and they can n...
In the book, the two only ever seem to have a casual affection for each
In order to keep their power, the government purposefully breaks up families in Oceania. The pieces of these hollow and artificial families are the building blocks of the vast and manipulative Party. Families need to be non-existent so that the people cannot unite or feel loved. However, the Party also needs to have total control over the children. In Oceania, it is normal to turn other people in when you have any suspicions that the person does not have genuine love for the Party. Even family members give each other up.
While at Lowood, a state - run orphanage and educational facility, Jane’s first friend, Helen Burns, teaches her the importance of friendship along with other skills that will help Jane grow and emotionally mature in the future. She serves as a role model for Jane. Helen’s intelligence, commitment to her studies, and social graces all lead Jane to discover desirable attributes in Helen. Helen is treated quite poorly, however, “her ability to remain graceful and calm even in the face of (what Jane believes to be) unwarranted punishment makes the greatest impression on the younger girl” (Dunnington). Brontë uses this character as a way to exemplify the type of love that Jane deserves. This relationship allows Jane to understand the importance of having a true friend. Given Jane’s history at Gateshead, finding someone like Helen is monumental in her development as a person. Helen gives through honest friendship, a love that is
Winston felt like sex was a rebellion. He is drawn to his lover Julia because