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1984 Winston's Relationship

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1984 is a book where love is not love. People don’t love or care for each other. The only person who gets any “love” is Big Brother. He doesn’t even get his love willingly. He gets his love because the party forces people to believe it is in their best interest to love him and almost worship him as some sort of god. The four ministries rewrite history, cover up lies, and torture those who try to love. But to the people of Oceania they accept this. It is a crime not to love Big Brother and The Party with all of one's heart. In this society the only way you are allowed to love is by loyalty, to Big Brother and Oceania. Real families don’t exist in 1984 they are only family units. A family unit is a group of people who look like a family but don’t care for or really love each other. Most families were broken and separated during the revolution. In family units, if a parent is committing a thoughtcrime, many children do chose to report that to the thought police.There are ordinary people all over the town that are undercover spies, trying to catch any person committing …show more content…

Winston had a failed marriage with a woman named Katherine. Their marriage was only for reproduction and Winston wanted a real loving relationship. Katherine was strictly trying to do her duty to The Party. When Winston meets Julia he lets go of everything The Party tells him. He begins to love Julia. They develope a secret relationship that they are hiding, and must hide from the community. Their relationship is very loving and true. Their friends betray them and they are caught committing the unthinkable thoughtcrime. They each go to the Ministry of Love and are tortured. Eventually Winston throws Julia under the bus and asks if they would torture her instead of himself. That is where their love is broken. Winston and Julia fall in love and whom they thought were their friends, betrayed them and they are tortured as a

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