George Orwell gives the readers a fascinating depiction of affection in his novel,1984. In the country of Oceania that he expounds on, the Party tries frantically to delete love for anything besides Big Brother from the lives of its individuals. In many ways, it is successful in doing so. It causes Winston's marriage with his significant other, Katharine to end in separation. Even intermittent issues that sneak by the Party's attentive gazes at initially, as Winston and Julia's, are in the long run ceased and the members are compelled to quit loving each other. Maybe the strongest love which remains parts in Oceania is the twisted love between the tormented towards his torturer. This love is displayed by Winston towards O'Brien and remains …show more content…
Love was not acceptable. Most of the marriages ended where partners left each other, which is what the party wanted "in case there were no children." (57) Winston was married, he could still have been married but he did not know where his wife could be and "so far as he knew, his wife was not dead." The way Winston talked about his wife, it showed that he did not care to find out whether his wife is alive or dead. The detachment towards his own marriage here is a marker of the way that the Party has changed what marriage implies. Winston's lack of interest towards his marriage is additionally shown when the storyteller reveals to us that, "days at a time he was capable of forgetting that he had ever been married" (57). In a general public where love still exists in marriage, it is difficult to envision somebody overlooking that they had ever been hitched. The way that Winston overlooks his better half frequently shows how irrelevant marriage progressed toward becoming in Oceania after the Party isolated love from it. Even though they were living together, Winston and Katherine weren't getting along together due to the fact that they both had different views on sex. Katherine saw sex as a chore whereas Winston saw it as an act of pleasure. She referred sex as a "duty to the party". None of them were enjoying being with each other and eventually they