Sexual Desire In The Novel 1984 By George Orwell

In the novel 1984, the author George Orwell used Winston's dream about the dark haired girl to demonstrate Winston's confined sexual desire and freedom. First of all, Winston realizes his anger when he ¨wanted to go to bed with¨ the dark haired girl, yet she expresses her sexlessness. The dark haired girl wears, ¨round her sweep supple waist¨, ¨the odious scarlet sash, aggressive symbol of chastity¨(pg 18). Chastity means the refrainment from all sexual intersourse, which Winstons already knows. Though Winston carries a strong desire, he cannot go to bed with the dark haired girl because the government tries to control all of the sexual desire in each individual. The inner party pairs up couples to birth kids. Their sexual life remains purely

for the source of kids, not for love, while taking care of the people's sexual desire. Winston finds no significant other,so his sexual desire bottles up inside of him. The only option for him to release it, dreaming. Dreaming displays your imagination working during the act of sleeping. Winston's imagination shows him a dark haired girl who walks towards him and she tears “off her clothes and flung them disdainfully aside”(35). This reveals his true intention and yet the gesture also demonstrates the freedom that Winston thinks/wishes that he hopes to enjoy. Her just flinging off her clothes and him thinking about it shows their inner criminal. It broke all rules of the system right in that moment and then he “woke up with the word “Shakespeare” on his lips”(35). Shakespeare represents the love and lust that he feels. Shakespeare writes a good amount of love stories. Julia, the dark haired girl, personifies a lovebird in Shakespeare's most famous story, Romeo and Juliet. The dream also acts as a representation of freedom. Winston says “That too was a gesture belonging to an ancient time”(35). Winston refers to freedom, which they no longer have. Freedom used to live in everyone, but the government took that all away when they came to power. To wrap it up, the dream represents freedom, by the way she takes off her clothes, and sexual repression and the way it releases.