Sexual Desire In The Novel 1984 By George Orwell

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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

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