Maturity In George Orwell's '1984'

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Throughout the novel Winston has memories of his lost mother and younger sister, he admirably remembers these two women, who represent true pureness to him. The strict rules to enforce purity set up by the party are not entirely pure due to the corruptness of the totalitarian ‘always watching’ society. The blissful past in which Winston remembers his family represents true goodness and purity, however those times are brainwashed into society’s mind as being ‘corrupt’, filled with lethargic capitalists, thus the reason Winston claims to “hate purity”. Winston’s old wife who made everything harder and seemed to simply be a robot of the party greatly contrasts the crude yet innocently corrupt Julia, whose youthfulness and resentment of society