George Orwell, identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society with his novel 1984, reveals the relationship amongst the meticulous Winston and Julia in a manner that alters people’s perspectives. It is through their condemned affair that the pair evinces that love is admittedly a fraudulent lie. Powerlessly living in a restricted and manipulated world, Winston and Julia have their lives subjugated through a convoluted system of cultural conditioning. Betrayal is fortified by the government, in an attempt to ultimately diminish …show more content…
Although, of the love adduced by the citizens, none is genuine. From the moment Winston looked in the eyes of Julia’s, he gathered an immediate emotion of antagonism towards her. He believed it was because of the “atmosphere of hockey-fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean-mindedness which she managed to carry about her. He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.” (Pg. 11) Winston had instantaneously become suspicious of the bold-looking girl. She somewhat presented an obscurity upon herself. He believed she was an ardent member of the party, working surreptitiously to procure all those against Big Brother; those committing the deplorable act of thoughtcrime. Malignant and abrasive visions infiltrated Winston’s mind, where he would callously rape and murder Julia. Quite instantly, Winston’s assumption of Julia deviates from wanting to entirely slaughter her, to developing an unfathomable …show more content…
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. Desire is the essence of the human soul; the secret of our existence. Dispel this desire from our world, and you get a world of tedious beings that have no reason to live, and no reason to die. 1984 is all about dispelling such desire. The people of Oceania are induced to believe they have no reason to live other than for the legacy of their leader. It is a world where no independent thought can exist and individual pleasure is ludicrous. Winston is lost and embedded in this world. He can no longer stand such perpetual confinement; he is tired of being an anonymous object. In Winston’s journey, he tried to find ways of defining himself. With the arrival of Julia, there was more impudence for Winston to find his identity. Even if the person he found, in this case Julia, was nothing more than his quintessence of his hatred for the Party, he had still found a position for which he could discharge his gap of nonexistence. “And what he wanted, more even than to be loved, was to break down that wall of virtue, even if it were only once in his whole life. The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion. Desire was thoughtcrime.” (1.6.16) Sex was seen simply as a politically rebellious act by Winston. Such rebellion elucidated him. He could finally exist with a purpose other than that of Big Brother. A perceptible