1. Julia and Winston have things in common like they both have rebellious feelings against the government. They also both hate purity. “I hate purity, I hate goodness. I don’t want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.” (P.125) But with similarities comes differences like age. Where Winston is 39, and Julia is in her 20s. Julia does not care about her past or future and only cares about the present. Winston strives about the past. Julia has a more optimistic view on life and does not care about future or death, on the other hand that is all Winston thinks about. 2. I believe that even though the party can torture a person through violence and make them say anything, however they cannot make them believe it. Basically when you say something that doesn’t mean that you meant it. You can force someone at gunpoint to say something, but you cannot force them to believe in what they are saying. Persuading is a form of making someone believing for point. But you cannot force someone to believe something because everyone has their individual …show more content…
The party permits couples to marry and to produce offspring. That is the main “purpose” of marriage according to the government. Encouraging love would not make people loyal to the government because the baby or offspring would need approval from the government to allow them to have a child. The children are for the party and this destroys individualism of the citizens. This allows the government to be able to control the younger generation by using brainwashing which makes them able to control them more than the previous generation. The younger you are when exposed to a belief or habit, it will be difficult to break. Similar to programming a robot from the beginning rather than later in the process when the robot makes a mistake. I feel that this isn’t as realistic as of now in the United States. But, I could see bits of it happening to other corrupted countries who could brainwash their
Topic #1: The party controls the citizen’s actions and thoughts with false information, in order to manipulate them into believing that society is normal.
This demonstrates her viewpoint that a trend such as this could lower the age of becoming sexual in children. George says that possibly this trend is an overcorrection of the 70’s when women dressed more conservatively as to not distinguish themselves from the males. Lianne brings up that until the 18th century it was uncommon to see a child as anything but a little adult, that the concept of having a unique children is a relatively new prospect. She also brings up that historically children dressed like and were expected to behave like adults. She says that this is similar to what is happening currently. That children are losing their childhood in an attempt to seem older, even when they don't necessarily know why, how or what they even are attempting to be perceived as older. Lianne calls this “age compression” and says that it is possibly brought on the wealth of information that children have access to.
The party destroys all that is human of each individual, and brainwashes them to be nothing but an empty shell, like in comparison to a science-fiction robot, taking commands from the bidding of their master. However sometimes some people will crack, and will begin to be human again, however it is proven that the party would eventually catch up to them, permanently taking away their humanity. Throughout this process, the people become the party, and very much like a hivemind, the party controls the people, and the people are the party. The party controls every thought and bit of imagination of each and every individual through their They hated anyone who was not a white Christian, and would go as far as to kill anyone who was not.
Winston’s and Julia’s meeting in the woods signifies breaking the totalitarian ways of the party. Here Winston feels free from observation, and gets a glimpse of the freedom that the party opposes. It is a place for lovemaking, a utter horrendous crime in their state. Here there are only Winston’s and Julia’s eyes,
Winston’s method of resistance is actually taking action and doing something to solve Oceania’s problem with Big Brother’s complete control. Winston does not like that the Party can just tell you that 2+2=5 and you would actually believe it, because that means that the Party has complete influence over you, and can make you change your ideas about basic facts and truths. “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” In other words, Freedom is the ability to know unquestionable truths, and if you have that, you can have more freedom, but if your basic knowledge is taken away, then your freedom is doomed. Winston looks for solutions, while Julia just tries to wait it out and only cares about herself. Winston at one point gets fed up with this attitude and even tells Julia that she is only a rebel from the waist down, which Julia takes as a compliment, “She thought this brilliantly witty and flung her arms round him in delight.” Julia and Winston’s perspective on resisting the party are similar at first but end up being completely different. Winston’s perspective is more compelling because his ideas can actually make an impact and change society, whereas Julia’s rebellion is
Winston expresses his feelings towards Julia in such an extraordinary way, “He would flog her to death with a rubber truncheon. He would tie her naked to a stake and shoot her full of arrows.”(Orwell 15). When he is expressing these thoughts, he is actually talking about someone he was actrate to, Winston just had no way of expressing it besides anger. He sees this beautiful young girl, who has made this vow its remain pure and chaste and he just wants to kill her because of how frustrated about it. Although late in the book, who these same two people are alone in a place without worry, everything is different, for example “You are prepared, the two of you to separate and never see one another again. ‘No!’ broke in Julia….’No,’ he said finally.” (Orwell 173) This second moment gives us a definite second opinion about how he may actually feel towards Julia. When they are both in a safe place, and can freely state and do they things they wish to do, Winston does show that he cares for Julia, enough that he does not want to leave her. I believe that these two different feelings show us that even with the body trying to control how people feel, what they do, along with what they think they never get to have complete control of
Orwell utilizes Julia’s character in order to capture the attitude of the oppressed as well. Winston wonders, “Any kind of organized revolt against the Party, which was bound to be a failure, struck her as stupid. The clever thing was to break the rules and stay alive all the same” (Orwell 131). Julia has no interest in overtly fighting the Party because she believes that the rebellion would never work out in her favor. Winston goes on to think:
Just changing a few small items in history can alter human belief. By constantly feeding the people fraudulent information and hiding the truth, the Party can get the people to believe almost anything; eventually leading to complete dominance over the mind. Orwell argues that society is completely oblivious to the constraints that are involved in everyday life. There is no individual in society and everyone remains the same. “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?”
The Party is a totalitarian government. Neither the Outer Party nor the proles (proletariat) have any influence on the direction of their country or the rules that govern their lives. The Inner Party manipulates the media and infiltrates citizens' private lives to gain complete control over every aspect of human existence, including love and sex. When the propaganda, deprivation, and rigid guidelines
In the 2nd part of 1984 Winston is meets a girl named Julia. At first Winston believes Julia will turn him in for committing Thought Crime. Then Julia passes Winston a note and they meet each other. The Party also does not allow association that is not goverernd. This is the start of an affair between the two, because they are not married and free love is not allowed. Winston is rebelling fully by his association with Julia. The 2nd section Winston fully rebels, he joins an underground resistance, and he believes that his life is better because The Party is no longer controlling him. At the end of this section Winston learns that he has been set-up and followed by the Thought Police the whole time. He and Julia believed that they were resisting and rebelling but had actually been entrapped by the Thought Police.
Given that George Orwell’s occupation was a English novelist, journalist, and critic his opinion that totalitarianism is wrong is not surprising because as a kid growing up in India and England he was brought up as a socialist. In 1984, Winston starts to look at his own life and the job that he has to help realize that what he is doing is wrong. He also tries to remember what is was like before Big Brother and he remembers his parents and he doesn’t know how they disappeared. Winston also starts a journal to keep track of all the dreams and thoughts he has. Furthermore in 1984, Julia knows that Big Brother is controlling the public so in her way of rebelling she has sex. One of the rules by Big Brother is that people are not allowed to have kids or any type of relationship unless permitted by the government. Julia knows that there is not much she can do to change the future but as she examines her own life she comes closer and closer to the truth. Winston and Julia looked at their own lives to help figure out that Big Brother was controlling the public. They did this by looking at their everyday lives, like the constant playing propaganda for Big Brother, the forced hate meetings, morning exercises by the telescreen. These all contributed to them checking their chains and finding
Winston and Equality are two characters obsessed with the past and history in general, they
Additionally, marriage will support children to become productive citizens. Marriage is a self-sacrificing act of devotion to another human being. After several years, marriage has been under scrutiny. Though, starting in the mid-80s and forward on society has failed to acknowledge the common good of marriage, and what it has to offer. The government is not going to add their two sense into promoting programs, which will save marriages. However, what about the people who still believe in it, or need to save their own marriage that is on the brink of divorce. The government feels that marriage is not worth saving since it’s not for every person. It is understandable that marriage is not for everybody, but let the entire world a fair chance at the opportunity of
...ing love for someone separate from the Party makes the Party vulnerable, because the passion that existed between the two formed an alliance between lovers, as opposed to allegiance to the Party. In a totalitarian state the goal of the party is to brainwash humans so that the only emotion they have is towards the government and its leader. In both 1984 and Soviet Russia, we see totalitarian societies that eliminate human qualities such as thoughts and emotions. In both cases, the societies function best without love because they have full control over their people. Thus, the existence of love and relationships is the most detrimental thing to a totalitarian regime.
Throughout the years, societies view on marriage and cohabitation has been changing, especially from the 1950s up until now. Marriage and cohabitation are in relation to social location, education, immigration and social class. In addition, these changes are influenced through socialization and their surrounding environments as people’s beliefs and expectations vary from what a defined family really is. Same-sex couples are now getting married and the divorce rate is on the rise, including non-married couples raising children. Most importantly, each individual determines who they marry or whom they share their love with through conditioning or in the course of shared similarities. People have dissimilar values, beliefs and attitudes and throughout the life course may change again, including the future generations. This paper reviews why marriage is on the decline and cohabitation is now the accepted social norm, including other aspects such as specific rights that couples have over others in the past. Religion is a powerful tool that alters minds of those who are affiliated with it. As a result, their beliefs are conditioned and marriage is valued differently than those who are not married. All in all this paper will further explain the change, continuity and