Literary Analysis Of George Orwell's 1984

Jamal Shire

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1984 Literary Analysis on intimacy

In George Orwell’s novel 1984 George orwell goes Tells a story and explores human intamacy and relationships in a demented utopia as a the main protagonist Winston Smith. In Oceania there very few bonds stronger than developed from loving relationships such as family, and friends. The only acceptable love in Oceania is the face of the Party, Big Brother. This form of restriction is necessary in their ultmate plan in achieving complete power and control over its citizens, as the Party must eliminate all forms of loyalties through love, sex, and family and redirect it to themselves the party .By destroying trust the Party has "cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman"(pg220). The betrayal of the family bond is a common theme in 1984. George Orwell shows how uncommon loyalty has become for example the skull faced man 's desperate begging to watch his wife and children 's throats be slit as an alternative to the Ministry of Love 's room 101 with almost no "private loyalties"(pg136). anothe example would be when Winston 's memories of his mother 's love "in a time when there were stil privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason"(pg28) to confront his fears that to "remain human", one was "not loyal to a party or a country or an idea, they were loyal to one another"(pg136).

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