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Humanity In 1984

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1984 Is it possible to have a vision of hope in a place that strips one of being able to form individual ideas, or to be able to reason, or feel many normal emotions; such as love, happiness, sadness or even anger? In Orwell’s book 1984, the totalitarian government has stripped every ounce of humanity out of the Party members. The disappearance of humanity in Oceania has had a disturbing effect in the dystopian society and has left the citizens hopeless and lacking of individual human expression. The Party controls every aspect of the member’s lives, from their jobs to their marriages. The Party wanted to eradicate any kind of love and human loyalty to one another. Husbands and wives turned against each other, as well as small children against …show more content…

311-312) O’Brien is telling Winston that the Party will destroy and take the humanity out of their world. For some reason Winston still thought very highly of O’Brien, even though O’Brien was at many times his torturer. Winston tried several time during the interrogation to object to O’Brien, he was of the opinion that they could not irrevocably wipe humanity out that somehow O’Brien must be dreaming. His argument to O’Brien was that such a society would disintegrate and have no vitality. Winston still believed that the spirit of man would somehow defeat the Party. Doublethink was a constant struggle for Winston. He knew that what they expected him to say and reality were two complete opposites There were many torture sessions and interrogations throughout his time at the Ministry of Love, but through all of it Winston had kept his promise to Julia by not betraying her, even though he had pretty much been through as much persecution that is imaginable he had held on to his last shred of humanity. During a conversation with O’Brien, he is telling Winston that the Party has beaten him. That his mind and body are broken and that he couldn’t have any pride left in him. Obrien asks Winston, “Can you think of a single degradation that has not happened to you?” Winston answers, “I have not betrayed Julia,” to which O’Brien agrees and tells him that he is a difficult case. Towards the end of the novel, after things had finally begun to get better for Winston, meaning he was getting fed on a regular basis as well as getting to shower; Winston had a hallucination and cried out, “Julia, Julia, Julia!” While he knew that he would be punished for this, he had no idea, what the punishment would be. It wasn’t long before

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