1984 George Orwell Research Paper

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The nightmarish future of Orwell’s 1984 is shown to the reader through many ways. The most overt aspects of the ordeal are the suppression of thought, lack of truth and complete subjection to Big Brother. The complete destruction of freedom is a continuous theme throughout the novel. However, one of Orwell’s more subtle but incredibly important facets of this future is Big Brother’s destruction of the family. Winston’s character is one who is demonstrated over and over to appreciate and search out beauty, and yet he finds no beauty in the family life. Winston has a discerning eye, and it’s shown through his ability to notice things. From noticing the beauty in the old paper of his journal to the “peculiar softness, as of rainwater, in both the color and the texture of the glass,” (99) in the paperweight he comes across. Even so, when he meets Mrs. Parson’s children, he feels uneasy. This is because in this new world of 1984, children are no longer innocent, and therefore, families are no longer a virtue. They are something to be wary of. How can there be real families in a world where “It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children,” (27)?…show more content…
If a family was a house, the pillars that support it are the husband and the wife. Yet in 1984, the husband and wife are foreign terms compared to what we know them as today. The reader’s eye into this world is provided through Winston, who not only describes his own wife as having the “most stupid, vulgar, empty mind he had ever encountered,” (69), but almost always refers to females in a negative light. Winston despises women and what they stand for in the world of 1984, a world characterized by false morality and blind obedience. Due to this, it is impossible for someone to have a family in Big Brother’s reality when the relationship between the two genders has been so

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