Examples Of Power In 1984 By George Orwell

Personal relations and thoughts within one's self oppressed by a bigger power result in the building of progressive acts against said power. The novel 1984 was written by George Orwell, forty years after the end of World War 2, in London. In the novel, Orwell creates a world in which people's thoughts and personalities are oppressed by the government, also known as the “Party” or a bigger power referred to as “Big Brother” of Oceania. The Party monitors and manipulates the thoughts and actions of the citizens by watching them through big telescreens. Winston Smith, a man who seemingly stands alone within the party has a strong rebellion against the party. Until he met Julia, a woman in the Party who to Winston’s surprise also had a strong rebellion

On the website, Celona says “Because of this, when Winston and Julia make love they think of it as a political act, ‘a blow struck against the Party’”(4). This “blow struck against the party” fulfills their irrational impulses of pleasure and love. While fulfilling these desires, Julia and Winston believe that they are taking away power from Big Brother as they could care less about the intentions of the power. The intention of the power is to merely deconstruct the mindset of the people within the party in order to have authoritarian control over them. This authoritarian control ultimately leads to the resentment Julia and Winston have toward the party. Julia and Winston's main objective is to prove Big Brother is not indestructible. Julia has a more cunning understanding of the party compared to Winston. She believes that the party is using sexual repression to invoke frustrating energy that will be directed to the Party’s Political ends. This sexual agitation will continue to build across the Party which will be centralized to the Party. Winston explains her views of the party when he says, “She had grasped the inner meaning of the Party’s sexual puritanism. It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the Party’s control and which had to be destroyed if possible” (Orwell 132). By grasping the meaning of the Party’s sexual puritanism, Julia is realizing that a simple private relationship is inflammatory to the Party. Julia’s impulses represent the id of ego, super-ego, and id. She ignorantly ignores the power of the party to satisfy her erratic impulses. Living in her own world she finds comfort in the irrationality of her actions. The continuing of her and Winston’s love affair will overpower the orthodoxy and will keep them from becoming victims of the Party’s authority. Winston is