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Themes In George Orwell's 1984 By George Orwell

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Have you ever wanted something so bad you did anything for it. Have you harmed somebody to get what you wanted. Then, when you got what you wanted, you realised it wasn’t worth all that you did. If you read the story 1984 by George Orwell you might have learned this lesson. What happened in that story was that Wilson wanted the people to have more power, but the government realised what he was doing, so they tricked him into coming into a trap, then they tortured him until he was broken and his values were gone. This shows that the theme was things are not always as they appear. The theme is that things are not always as they appear. According to George Orwell in the novel 1984, “‘I wanted to rape you and then murder you afterwards.’” In other words George Orwell believes that when Winston said this he wasn’t being truthful. In addition, this shows that things are not always as they appear because it uses the word wanted which is past tense, so it changed how Winston feels about Julia now he loves her but before he didn’t that shows how things are not as always as they appear. George Orwell writes himself that, “‘Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!’” George Orwell’s point is that even though he loved her he still is trying to get out of the hole that he dug for himself. Moreover, this shows that things are not always as they appear because they were in love but

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