Emotions In Nineteen Eighty-Four

Individuals' emotions derived from the challenges they face ultimately make up both the individual and collective experiences forming the human experience. George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1948) provides a greater understanding of the complexity of human emotions and qualities in response to challenges through features of prose fiction.

Totalitarian regimes maintain power over the collective by suppressing individuality and personal freedom affecting an individual's emotions and qualities. Orwell portrays the party's suppressive nature through the intertextual reference within Goldstein’s novel "The two aims of the Party are to Conquer the whole surface of the Earth and to Extinguish the Possibility for independent thought.`` This is

Orwell portrays the party’s suppression of individual intimate relationships through the simile “Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation, like having an enema.” illustrating how individuals are discouraged from forming intimate relationships. This is portrayed through Winston's anecdote to Julia about his previous relationship with Katherine “To embrace her was like embracing a jointed wooden image.” The simile of wood conveys Winston’s compliance to get married to fulfil society's expectations illustrating his overwhelming fear of being unloved and alone. Therefore Orwell illustrates the emotions derived from the suppression of intimate relationships. Furthermore, the party’s suppressive state ultimately affects individuals' perception of intimate relationships seen through the hyperbole of Winston to Julia “She had become a physical necessity.”However although Winston may see his relationship with Julia as a genuinely intimate bond, their ‘love’ is exploited by the party in Room 101 torture session where Winstons through the exclamatory tone “Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! I don’t care what you do to her.” This reveals how their bond wasn’t genuine, predominantly composed under the suppressive society circumstances where this bond was the only option for a relationship composed of ‘love’. This is further exemplified through the visual imagery during their final meeting in the novel “Her waist had grown thicker, and in a surprising way, had stiffened….He did not attempt to kiss her” to portray Winston's newfound sense of hatred and disgust towards Julia. Therefore Orwell portrays human emotions and actions in response to a suppressive