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“1984” is a fiction novel about totalitarianism and the fate of a single man who tried to escape from an overwhelming political regime. The book was written by the British writer and journalist George Orwell in 1948 and had the Soviet Union as a prototype of the social structure described in it.Events in the book take place in London, a capital of Airstrip One, which is a province of the state of Oceania. The year is 1984 and the world is engaged in an endless omnipresent war. The political regime called Ingsoc (a misspelled abbreviation for English Socialism) constantly seeks out ways to control the minds and private lives of its citizens. The regime is run by the Party, headed by a half mythical Big Brother. The main protagonist …show more content…

People are obliged to express hatred towards Goldstein’s image on the screen. During one of these periods, Winston fixates on O’Brien – a member of the most powerful Inner Party. For some reason, Winston imagines that O’Brien could be one of the leaders of the Brotherhood. He wants to talk to him, and he even has a dream in which O’Brien’s voice says: “We shall meet at the place where there is no darkness.” After the last Two Minutes Hate, he received a note from a girl named Julia that reads “I love you.” Julia is a member of the Anti-Sex League, so at first Winston treats her with mistrust, and he even considers her to be a member of the Thought Police. However, she manages to prove to him that she hates the Party too and they start a love affair. Eventually, Winston and Julia get arrested. They are held separately, tortured and interrogated. Winston is beaten by the jailers and he is forced to confess to various crimes, legitimate and fictional. But still, the physical pain is nothing for him, compared to the shock that he experiences when he meets O’Brien and finds that he is a loyal servant of the Big …show more content…

Winston resists and he declares that despite the fact that, under torture, he has betrayed everything he valued and believed in, there is one person that he is still devoted to – Julia. But here, Orwell depicts the Party’s endless possibilities to monitor the thoughts of each citizen in Oceania. The Party knows exactly what Winston fears most, though it is a secret for Winston himself. O’Brien puts a swarm of rats in front of his victim’s face and, driven to panic and horror, Winston finally cries: “Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her. Tear her face off and strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!”The novel ends with a description of how Winston is sitting in a cafe, drinking gin. He sees Julia every know and then but they dislike each other greatly. Big brother has

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Julia!”, wherein the truncated syntax reflects his broken spirit as Orwell highlights the inability of the individual to overcome totalitarian oppression. Thus, where Lang glorifies Freder’s success through an uplifting soundtrack, Winston is reduced to a mindless adherent of the Party in the ironic ending “He loved Big Brother,” with his loss of humanity reflecting society’s defeatism after WWII. Therefore, comparing these conflicting perspectives on the power of governments to suppress the individual highlights the dynamic nature of socio-political

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She displays no interest in the Brotherhood, and even falls asleep when Winston reads the Brotherhood manifesto to her. Eventually, Julia and Winston get arrested by the Thought Police and get taken to the Ministry of Love. While in the Ministry of Love, she gets tortured and betrays Winston. The novel does not tell how exactly, but she reveals to Winston that she did. Both Julia and Winston get released from the Ministry of Love.

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Once Julia has given Winston the note that says ‘I love you’ on it, they begin meeting each other in private, but Winston is not sexually attracted to Julia like she is to him; “Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow against the part. It was a political act” (Orwell, 104). In 1984 relationships are forbidden, unless to only reproduce children for the party, making Winston and Julia’s relationship extremely

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Winston knows Julia will have a sexual relationship with him. Thus giving Julia the possession of the sexual possibilities Winston desires. Once Winston and Julia accumulate a relationship, they ultimately get caught and sent to the Ministry of Love, where Winston is tortured into ‘another’ Winston. Julia is what Winston wants; Julia is the reason Winston committed the crime and is sent to room

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