Love And Hate Depicted In George Orwell's Novel '1984'

The book 1984 written by George Orwell is an interesting novel that discusses the extreme effects of a totalitarian state. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is an outer Party member who despises the oppressive control of the Big Brother administration and harbours revolutionary dreams for the future. Julia, his lover, also works for the Party and has the same hatred for Oceana’s undemocratic government. Despite their identical hatred and rebellious manners against the Party, Winston and Julia are foils to one another. They are both complementary characters to each other through their differences on morality and ethical views, feelings on history and political values.

Although love and freedom both require each other, they can not coexist in a totalitarian government that has intolerance for independence and rules. Toward the middle of the novel, Orwell depicts Winston

The fictional novel, 1984 by George Orwell is about a world run by a totalitarian government, called the Party, which takes away all the freedoms of its citizens by watching over them with high surveillance technology. In addition, the Party uses dishonesty and betrayal to expose people’s true feelings of Oceania, the country where the story takes place. Betrayal is seen throughout society in Oceania through government manipulation and actions made by Winston, Julia and O’Brien, the main characters. Winston’s true self-betrayal comes when he realizes his new passionate love for Big Brother, the leader of the Party and Oceania. The Party fears a rebellion against them, as a result they use different methods to eliminate trust between

The reoccurring theme of psychological manipulation comes back because throughout the book, Winston states that the Party has so much power they can manipulate people and he clearly recognizes it. However, in this quote Winston who rebelled against Big Brother and the Party along with what they stood for is now saying he loves Big Brother. This proves the Party’s ability to manipulate because they managed to manipulate Winston, who strongly disliked the idea of totalitarianism, loved Big Brother after O’Brien manipulates him. Setting: Chestnut Tree Café which is the site of where many Thought Criminals hang

Big Brother desires power and complete control and gains this through repeated acts of cruelty. After Winston is captured by the Thought Police, he is held captive under government control in the Ministry of Love. After being tortured for many days, “there were times when the mere sight of a fist drawn back for a blow was enough to make him pour forth a confession of real and imaginary crimes” (254). Big Brother tortures Winston until he is conditioned to say whatever they

Orwell's discussion of love is not only to romantic love. Through Winston's memories of his mother and the contrast between how she cared for him and his sister is truly amazing. Winston's mother deeply loved her children and did all she could to protect them during the aftermath of the Revolution and the Party's rise to power. In Winston's time, the Party has removed such interfamilial loyalty, demanding that all love and loyalty be reserved for Big Brother and the Party. In this way, the bonds between parents and children are broken.

In the novel 1984, George Orwell sets up a dystopia that reveals basic human qualities occur even when the people are brainwashed out of the,. This story takes place in an alternate society where life is radically different than what the world is today. The government has an extreme control on its people, brain washing them and suppressing every aspect of human connection. The citizens are taught to think that all information from the government is true even when it is blatantly obvious it isn’t. This novel allows the reader to witness the genesis of a primal love through the action of rebellion. Winston and Julia fall in love with each other as the book continues.

Each of the ministries under the party are titled the opposite of what should be expected. This tactic is used by the party to make the people of Oceania obey Big Brother in a sort of twisted way. Each of the ministries holds a contradictory motive behind it. For example the Ministry of Peace deals with war. However, it is the Ministry of Love that really was “the really frightening one”(4). Winston, who would later find out, ascertained that inside the Ministry of Love was “delicate instruments that” would gradually wear someone down “by sleeplessness and solitude and persistent questioning” (167). When one typically thinks of love, you never paint a picture in your mind of torture or cruelty. It’s obvious that the Ministry of Love uses cruelty to fulfill the wishes of Big Brother and for that reason it’s a place of torture. Winston Smith is unfortunately not careful enough with who he’s surrounded himself with during his daily life. This just goes to prove that no one is safe under Big Brother and so Winston’s so called “friend”,O’Brien, takes Winston as a hostage to the Ministry of Love. At the Ministry of Love Winston faces multiple hardships. Once Winston Smith is captured he is tortured by his biggest nightmare and he eventually surrenders to Big Brother’s

Hate is considered to be the extreme opposite of love in today’s society, but what if in another sense hatred can lead to love and love lead to hatred? In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, the idea that a hate based society can survive is explored. This hate based society managed to survive due to the sheer control the “top” of the society has on it, the “top” being the Party. The rest of the people in the society are controlled as a mob by the Party. Through constant surveillance, enforcement of law, and manipulation of life itself, the people are left to do what the Party bids of them through a god like figure known as Big Brother. The most apparent manipulation that can be seen throughout the book is the manipulation of love and hatred. The Party uses the hatred for Emmanuel Goldstein and Eurasia or Eastasia to rally the people in hating the enemy and loving Big Brother. Through the manipulation of human emotion the Party can do whatever they want because they have the power to do so. Given how one's hatred can fuel one's love and vice versa for an entity which in turn causes the person to do anything for said entity, virtually anything can be possible due the fact that it is demanded through emotion. This is why in the novel 1984 shows that a society based on hate can survive.

(Orwell 85). The women have a strong desire to produce children and spies for Big Brother while Big Brother is simultaneously conforming the idea of being intimate with a spouse to be considered a task and something to be looked down upon. The reason for this is Big Brother wanting to eliminate the risk of citizens forming any loyalties other than the one to Big Brother, including that of spouses. In contrast to the characterization, Orwell uses to introduce the women’s feelings, Orwell forms a sense of loyalty that Winston has to himself when he decides to write in his journal (7). From the beginning of the novel, it is clear that Winston does not fully agree with the way Big Brother is operating.

In George Orwell’s novel 1984, the nature of love and friendship in the nation of Oceania that Orwell writes about, the Party tries desperately to erase love for anything but Big Brother from the lives of its members. (Reese) 1984 displays that the party’s unlimited and absolute control of the people. For an example the telescreens are used to surveillance the people in their homes. The party has eyes in many places too. For instance the love of Winston and Julia somehow compromised by Mr. Charrington when he disclosed the relationship to the Party about them. Another example of the love in Oceania is the marriage of Winston and Katharine ended horrendously. (Reese) Winston thinks deeply about the condition of the world. (Notes) He said he wanted to throw her off of a cliff.

People are trained like dogs, to show no emotion towards others and that relationships are only permitted for the benefit of the Party only. If it is not necessary for the Parties survival than the emotion becomes against the law and the infamous Thought Police are a constant reminder of this reality. One of these relationships is sexual ones. A sexual act is only permitted to procreate, to create new members of the Party. All other aspects of sex are viewed as useless and not needed for the continuity of the Party. Obrien states to Winston: ‘Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.’ The sentences are short, like dot points are. This could be to clarify the points that Orwell is trying to make. As Obrien has stated to Winston, the orgasm is unnecessary to the thriving of the Party and is thus getting eradicated, as well as the sex instinct. There are two similes in this passage. The first one, referring to eggs taken from a hen, is a pointer to the future of the Party. There will be no love between a mother and her children, her children will be harvested and indoctrinated at an early age. The second simile is the other one talking about a ration card. A ration card was issued by the government for the holder to obtain certain foods. They were

In Orwell’s 1984, the actions of Winston and the government demonstrate the themes of the book. An illuminating moment of the story occurs when the opposing figures of the party, Julia and Winston find a lead to the resistance of the Inner Party, in a conversation with O’Brien showing that trust can easily be replaced with betrayal as a Winston begins to believe and pour his loyalty into O’brien’s double agent role. O’Brien’s responses and questions represent his personality and job as they are a double entendre, working for and against Winston and Julia. When O’Brien barrages Winston and Julia with questions that determine how far these individuals will go for the cause of overthrowing the party, O’Brien asks if “[They’re] prepared to give [their] lives”, and to “betray [their] country for foreign powers”. But when asked about Winston and Julia separating and never seeing each other again, Julia immediately replies no

George Orwell presents us with an interesting portrayal of love in his novel 1984. In the nation of Oceania, the government tries to eradicate love in order to isolate deviation to solely Big Brother. In many ways, it is successful in doing so. The absence of love caused Winston 's marriage with his wife Katharine to be indifferent, cold, and to end in separation. Even occasional affairs that seem to sneak by the Party 's watchful eyes, like Winston and Julia 's, are eventually stopped and the two are forced to stop loving each other. Perhaps, the strongest love that remains in Oceania is the love of Big Brother. This love is displayed when Winston is tortured by O 'Brien so that

In George Orwell's novel 1984, we explore intimate human relationships, as experienced by the protagonist Winston Smith. Not many bonds are stronger than those developed among family, friends, and lovers. In Oceania, those bonds were made but they've always had a dim side to them, since the only thing you could openly be loving about was the Party and Big Brother. This limitation was one of the most necessary in order to achieve complete power and control over the citizens. The reason for this limitation was the never-ending need of the Party to dissolve all loyalties derived through sex, love, and family and redirect them to the Party itself. Another limitation enforced by the Party was the destruction of trust. The Party invaded the trust between parent and child, co-workers and most importantly between man and woman.