To begin, the double standard that when men sleep with a lot of women, they are considered as being “studs” but when women sleep with a lot of men, they are considered as being “sluts” has been around for ages. If you watch the movie: “The stoning of Soraya M.” the woman gets stoned for being accused of adultery by her husband who makes up a lie to “get rid” of her. I honestly think that whatever people want to do with their own genitals is fine by me as long as I’m not involved involuntarily in their business. Hey, it’s your vagina and/or penis, do whatever you want. But I do advise to be careful with aids and other STDs.
Julia didn’t believe in what Big Brother is doing and unlike Evey her resistance to the party was done with little effort. Julia liked to have sex with Winston and for her that was a big enough rebellion against the party’s wishes. Evey seems as though she has a deeper loathing for her enemies then Julia did. The party killed her parents and so her actions I believe were based off
They seem like the best of friends but are ultimately torn apart by lies, deceit, and sex. For example, they both slept with each others girlfriends yet neither of them knew until it was confessed through jealousy and hate. The unknown can be of importance. I feel this was idea was lead on, and also the purpose of the narrator. Through out the film, the narrator commented on characters revealing certain details about their lives which related to the scene or what was going on in the film.
Although both Winston and Julia do not like the Party their philosophy when it comes to life and the Party are different. Julia grew up in the time were there was always the Party unlike Winston making her want to rebel against the adults. Julia is pretends to be a conformist but rebells against the Party because she feels she should not be controlled. Julia is part of the Party but rebells when her and Winston make love. Going against Big Brother with Winston was not Julia's first time, proving her to disagreement with The Party thoughts.
Readers are often angered by the ending of 1984 because of Winston’s betrayal of his previous life for the acceptance of the party. This is a semi-appropriate ending because of the impossibility of going against the party because of their total control of all people’s lives through the use of fear, which had not been accomplished by any authoritarian regime before the rise of the party. The novel’s ending was semi-appropriate because it stresses a society where all people are equal, but on the contrary makes it so that people must give up all of their freedoms and have all of their aspects of life controlled to conform to the standards of the society. The party controls people’s lives off of three founding philosophies “war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. (Orwell 26) War is peace refers to the fact that if the party always frames another enemy to direct all hate towards.
Through their similarities and differences in characteristics, these three women encourage Winston to commit thought crimes and allow him to experience temporary freedom from Big Brother's despotic control. Winston's mother was a tall, statuesque, rather silent woman with slow movements and magnificent fair hair. Winston rarely has memories about his mother since she disappeared when he was ten or eleven years old. "He could not remember what had happened, but he knew in his dream that in some way the lives of his mother and his sister had been sacrificed to his own." ( p.30) Winston felt guilty since he thought that he was the reason his mother and sister disappeared.
Dramatic irony is used as the audience know that this is already her second drink therefore contradicting herself. As Blanche also uses the word ‘limit’ this suggests that Blanche has been told in the past to keep to a ‘limit’ , as she even lies to her sister suggesting she cannot control the alcohol problem as she has to lie to those closest to her. However in my opinion it is more than an alcohol problem that has led to her overall downfall. Blanche’s life has always been involved with male influences and in the 1940’s when the play was written men had a huge influence on woman. It’s only in today’s society where woman have finally started to become equal in comparison to the 1940’s play.
This is just another example of how the NE see’s a “stars” status as something they can tear down and say whatever they want about it just because they feel like they have no moral code when it comes to the upper class. In one article about Jen Garner and Ben Affleck the writer makes the comment that Jen Garner is using friends to spy on Ben Affleck to make sure that he’s staying faithful (George). Now comments like this can cause all kinds of problems and distrust in a relationship. NE is promoting that the relationships of the “stars” isn’t real and can be messed with as they see fit. This is just one of many poor social values that the magazine
Without real love people turn their focuses on to other interests , they feel neglected and need another outlet to focus built up energy. The party have thought up of ways that all these factors can be controlled, and by eliminating love and relationships the inner party can remain in control. But as we see in the novel the protagonist Winston Smith relationships in a totalitarian society can lead to ones downfall. Winston Smith is a 39 year old man living in 1984, in the novel Winston falls in love with a young girl named Julia, both these characters believe that the party is corrupt and have different reasons, in the second part of the book their relationship forms, creating ties to each other rather than the party, meeting up with each other secretly to avoid being caught. The party fails to keep control of these two people as they have discovered love and passion and although the party tries to keep each character busy through committees and work, the one thing they can’t stop is passion and love and
Free will and independent thinking is not accepted, people forget how to express their emotions. There is no more privacy, everyone is being watched hence the society has become anti-social only relying on technology the government has forced them to use. Most of the people are living in a material world, thus the majority of the society has become brainwashed. The society has forgotten about their past and are in great misery. People living in this society are in great distress; ignoring their emotions and having no meaningful attribute to their lives.