1984 Love

In describing his thoughts on Julia when he first saw her, Winston says, ““‘I hated the sight of you,’ he said. ‘I wanted to rape you and then murder you afterwards. Two weeks ago I thought seriously of smashing your head in with cobblestone’” (121). Winston’s hate for Julia is evidently severe because he “seriously” thought of killing her. The hatred feels even more real because not only did he want to “murder” her, he also wanted to “rape” and degrade her. The hate is graphic and raw which makes it feel real, but his feelings change so quickly to love that the authenticity of these feelings are

Life in Oceania is dull, lifeless and described as ‘swimming against the current’. Orwell creates a dire feeling of hopelessness through his destruction of friendship, family, love and individual thoughts. Love and sex are no longer accepted under the totalitarian regime and Winston is therein forced to suppress all his sexual desires treating sex as merely a procreative duty. His marriage to Katherine was purely ‘[their] duty to the Party’ whose end was the creation of new party members. This shows that in a totalitarian world it is wholly necessary to adhere to the constraints enforced by a government not only for personal salvation but also for the survival of the entirety of the human race.

When Winston learns that a secret Brotherhood really does exist, he and Julia are eager to join, even though O'Brien tells them the horrific consequences. Winston and Julia feel so strongly in their hatred of Big Brother and the Party that they are willing to do anything to help the Brotherhood, with one exception: they refuse to never see each other again. The couple's honesty with O'Brien ultimately leads to their destruction as a couple, an irony that comes back to them at the end of the novel. O'Brien tells the couple that, if they survive, they may become unrecognizable to each other, that they may become entirely different people. Here Orwell foreshadows later events.

George Orwell, author of 1984, depicts love in a very unusual manner. The government in the novel wants their citizens to have a devoted loyalty only towards Big Brother. Intimate relationships are forbidden by the Party because these relationships create divided loyalties; rather than placing the party first, people want to put their spouses first. Through the manipulation of sexual desire, marriage, and love itself, the party warps love into political enthusiasm.

Before Winston met Julia, his body was wasting away and he believe he didn’t have anything worth living for. He started a journal and wrote “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” all over a page, even though he knew he would be killed for committing thoughtcrime (19). However, when he sees “the words I love you [on Julia’s note,] the desire to stay alive had welled up in him, and the taking of minor risks suddenly seemed stupid” (91). Not only has Winston’s appetite for life returned because of Julia’s affection, but he becomes physically healthier as well. He “had grown fatter, his varicose ulcer had subsided… [and] his fits of coughing… had stopped” (124). Julia’s love strengthens Winston. After detailed planning to assure the Party could not eavesdrop on their date, Julia and Winston spend a whole afternoon in the countryside together and make love (98-106). This adventure is even more special to them because it is an act of rebellion against the Party, though they realize the fact they are able to be together is all that is important. Through each of their rendezvouses, Winston and Julia’s relationship grows stronger. Whenever they meet, “they [sit] talking for hours” (108). All the time they spend together leads

Described as “young”, “free-spirited”, and “practical”, Julia differs from Winston in many ways. She is open about her sexuality, and sleeps with several party members before she meets Winston. Although these acts are frowned upon in the eyes of The Party, Julia doesn’t intend them that way, and tells Winston that it is only to satisfy her own desires. Julia only “..questioned the teachings of the party when they in some way touched upon her life”(153). She was too young to remember a life that contradicted The Party’s teachings, and because she believed all Party propaganda to be lies, Julia had no interest in what those teachings were anyway.

The main character in George Orwell’s book 1984 is a thirty-nine year old man with the name of Winston Smith. Winston Smith creates thought crimes, he also has anti-Party views. The story “1984” tells about all of Winston Smith’s struggles. In an effort to avoid being monitored, Winston physically conforms to society, however mentally he does just the opposite. Winston is a thin, frail and intellectual thirty-nine year old. Winston hates totalitarian control and enforced repression that are characteristics of his government. Winston hates being watched by Big Brother. He always has revolutionary dreams, he feels like he would be protected. Julia is Winston’s lover, a beautiful dark- haired girl working in the

The first of many things that Julia and Winston don’t have in common are their characteristics. Both Winston and Julia have a contradicting physical appearance and personality. Winston is a small, frail figure with very fair hair. His face is naturally optimistic looking and his skin is rough by the continuous use of coarse soap, blunt razor blades, and the cold of winter. Winston is thirty-nine years old and has bad health. He coughs violently in the morning and suffers itching and inflammation from a varicose ulcer above his right ankle. The symptoms of the ulcer grow worse the more he retains from sexual activity and starts to alleviate once he starts the affair with Julia. Winston is very thoughtful and observant and is very concerned with the Party’s philosophy and how they control the history. Winston also has a unique sense of fatalism and is extremely paranoid. On the other hand, Julia has very dissimilar characteristics than Winston. Julia is dark-haired and twenty-six years old. She plays the act of a zealous Party member by wearing an Anti-Sex sash and passionately participating during the Two Minutes Hate. The real Julia is

However, because the Party is able to control the emotions of the public through events like the Two Minutes Hate and public executions, people are filled only with three blind feelings: hate, anger, and fear. When Winston meets Julia, he unlocks a whole new set of emotions such as happiness, curiosity, and love. At this point in the story, he becomes more human than those who allow themselves to be programmed by the Party. Orthodoxal members of Oceania aren’t able to feel the same way Winston does, since the Party destroys humanity by ridiculing love and approving only of marriages that are based on practicality. Humanity is destroyed in our society in a similar way, when people ridicule feelings such as depression and emptiness, and dismiss those who look for emotional help as attention-seeking. Without acceptance of all emotions, members of society cannot connect in a human

Everyone has different perceptions of love and hate, in the novel 1984 by George Orwell, an interesting new perspective on these concepts is conveyed through the story. Within the book, concepts of love and hate coexist for the sole purpose of manipulation through the ruling government, The Party. The nature of love, happiness, and friendship in the country of Oceania, where the book takes place, simply is that they do not exist with exceptions for their leader, Big Brother. The Party influences all concepts of emotion for the purpose of manipulation in order to remain in control over society. With all that was said, the true message of the book is that love and hate cannot exist without the other.

Winston 's marriage is a failure to the Party because it produced no children, but it is the Party that creates the lack of attachment between Winston and Katharine. Although the Party wants its members to reproduce, it sees the destruction of love within marriages as more important. One reason for trying to remove love from marriage is so that loyalties among spouses would not become stronger than the loyalty between the individuals and Big Brother. In addition, the Party 's "real, undeclared purpose was to remove all

Winston Smith is the main character in the book Nineteen Eighty-Four. He falls in love with a girl named Julia which has been forbidden by law by the party who rule all. The book is set in London, in the city of Airstrip One which is part of the superstate Oceania. The world is divided into three superstates: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. These three superstate are said to always be in war against one another. Winston lives in a dirty dilapidated apartment building named Victory Mansion. After sneaking out to see one another for a few months they finally get caught by the police and are subjected to torture until they can profess their love for

In the novel, 1984, the author, George Orwell, explores the chaotic and inhumane world under an all controlling and manipulative government. In an age of threatening, powerful governments, Orwell combats the support of these powers through subtle motifs throughout the book. The symbolic government of Big Brother controls a society in which the main character, Winston Smith, tries to navigate through while preserving his human nature. Criticizing this form of government, the author uses romantic love to highlight the deprivation of humanity through Big Brother’s laws and by give the reader a little hope for romance just to destroy it in the end.

The book 1984 brings up questions on society, love, and many more things. The novel 1984, written by George Orwell, is about a society where there is a definite ruler that uses terror and discord to rule. This kind of society is called a totalitarian society. Winston, after working and believing in the totalitarian society for 39 years, now wants to try and take down this society. He eventually meets a woman to where they “love” each other and both want the totalitarian ruling to end. While their attempts are very noble, they sadly fail. In all of the world, no one idea can live without having an opposite but, if you control one, you control the other. George Orwell uses this thinking in the novel 1984 with the emotions of love, happiness, and friendship. The most influential of these is love with its counter: hate.

In the dystopian novel 1984, we are presented with a twisted view of marriage and love. In the nation of Oceania, the Party works and manipulates it’s members to destroy feelings of love and affection for anything but Big Brother and the party from the lives of everyone in the dystopian society, like Our main character, Winston, and his love interest, Julia. In many ways, it is successful in doing so. It causes Winston's marriage to his previous wife, Katherine, to be a failure from the stand points of love and reproduction, which ultimately ends in separation for the two. Even discreet and quiet affairs that could go unnoticed by the party at first, like Winston and Julia's, are eventually stopped. The strongest love that remains in Oceania is ultimately the love for the party and Big Brother, and in Winston’s case, his love for O’ Brien, who tortured him. This love is displayed by Winston on several occasions throughout the novel and remains prevalent, even when O'Brien tortures Winston with his greatest fears. The novel leaves us with the knowledge that Winston ultimately confesses his love for Big Brother and gives up as well as feels indifferent towards his past love interest, Julia. This love is the only love approved by the Party. The party’s ability to destroy love so easily leaves us seeing a love that is unnatural and terrifying. I shows us that the party will stop at nothing to control every last part of their citizen’s lives.