Examples Of Nature In 1984 By George Orwell

George Orwell’s 1984 conveys human behaviour and nature through presenting a series of characters demonstrating their response to the challenges of the individual versus collective and internal conflicts. This is exhibited clearly through the characters of Julia and Parsons with their respective responses of resistance and confusion. Orwell demonstrates this repeatedly throughout his novel, thus representing the range of humanity’s behaviour.

Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts the challenges of living within a totalitarian society as each identity is subsumed by the collective. The response of resistance is clearly exhibited through the anomaly of Julia and her undeniable love for Winston. As a female character, Julia utilises her feminine power

Throughout the novel, Parson’s is a loyal servant to the Party and Big Brother due to his low intelligence level. Nevertheless, he betrays Big Brother in his sleep due to his unconscious thoughts. His response to the challenges of being caught with thoughtcrime is confusion depicted throughout his internal conflicts. This can first be revealed in “Thoughtcrime is] insidious. It can get hold of you without you even knowing it. Do you know how it got hold of me? In my sleep!”. The use of juxtaposition within the first phrase demonstrates how brainwashed he is within this society, establishing that thinking has harmful benefits. In addition, the personification of thoughtcrime creates it to be thought of as a disease rather than natural human behaviour. Additionally, a strong cause of his internal conflicts is being sent to the Ministry of Truth by his own child revealing “It was my little daughter, " said Parsons with a sort of doleful pride.” Parson’s experiences confusion exhibited through the oxymoron of ‘doleful pride’, illuminating that he is mournful that his own blood placed him in Room 101 but at the same time proud that his child did the right thing. Parson contrasts his own expectations of his child versus the expectations the society places on them, demonstrated within “The family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police.” This highlights his inconsistency of wanting to believe in The Party and Big Brother but also wanting to reciprocate loyalty from his children. Moreover, Parson questions the Party’s intentions illustrated in “Of course I’m guilty!... You don’t think the Party would arrest an innocent man, do you?” The rhetorical question presents Parson’s doubting the Party and experiencing confusion as he has loyalty served them for his whole life. This