George Orwell 1984 Analysis

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“On average, 83% of men and 59% of women enjoy their sex life” (Langer). Under the rule of the Party in the novel 1984, sex was considered dirty and that it should not be enjoyed. They went to great lengths to soil the idea of sexual acts. One, for example, is the Junior Anti-Sex League. The author, George Orwell, portrays sex as being just like anything else they do in life: a service to the Party. The idea of sex in this novel was not to be for enjoyment or pleasure, but only to breed children for their government. The Party, in a sense, hated sex, but they still needed people to rule, so they tried to “…kill the sex instinct, or, if it could not be killed, then to distort it or dirty it” (Orwell 66). They made pornographic films, which,

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