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Gabbie Crawley 1984 Essay Laurencot  As of chapter IV in book two of George Orwell's __1984__, Winston has experienced many life-changing events. In the beginning of book two, Winston has an encounter with the dark haired girl from two minutes hate, the cafeteria, and all around Oceania. She secretly handed him a little scrap of paper which he later discovered had the words //I love you// written on it. Winston no longer worried about her being a member of the Thought Police that was out for him, or even a spy. When he did not see her for a week after receiving the paper, the only thing he worried about was losing her. Eventually, though, they did come in contact. They met in Victory square, being sure not to seem like they were talking to each other by not moving their lips, not making eye contact, and not being near each other. At Victory Square, they arranged their first secret meeting elsewhere. They met in a field she had discovered on a community hike. Here, they got to know each other, and Winston finally learned the girls' name, Julia. They had sex in the woods, set back from the open field and they got to know each other very well. Winston mostly just listened to Julia's life story and added in things about himself here and there, though she already knew a lot about him. The most surprising thing was that Winston told Julia of how he used to want to rape and murder her before they had met, and Julia laughed at his desires. After this meeting, they met several other times and they kept their relationship a secret. In chapter IV, Winston and Julia get a room at Mr. GCrawley/Page 2 Charrington's antique shop, where Julia brings real food, such as real sugar, coffee, bread, jam, etc., Julia surprises Winston by putting on make-up and making herself prettier in Winston's eyes, and they made love. Therefore, the first four chapters of book two are describing the development of Winston and Julia's relationship. When reading book two of __1984__ by George Orwell everything mentioned was clear to me except for one thing; how exactly does Big Brother and the Party use sex to their advantage and what would happen to Oceania if everyone began enjoying it as Julia and Winston do? When first reading about this, the reasoning made no sense to me. After reading this section of book two over and over several times, I’ve finally come to and understanding. On pages 132 to 133, Julia explains to Winton “the inner meaning of the Party’s sexual Puritanism” (page 132). Julia states, “When you make love you’re using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don’t give a damn for anything. They can’t bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you’re happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?” (page 133). When first reading this insert it was very confusing, but now it makes much more sense. The Party causes the people of Oceania to have bottled up emotions and frustrations by bottling down something more powerful than themselves, peoples’ sex-drive. This realization led me to another realization. If the people of Oceania began enjoying sex as much Winston and Julia do, it would be complete chaos to Big Brother. Those bottled up emotions could no longer be molded into “the fear, the hatred, the GCrawley/Page 3 lunatic credulity” (page 133) as Winston put it. Sex with intent to reproduce would no longer be seen as a “duty to the Party”. If that were to happen and people were having children because they wanted to, maybe they would actually love their children. The parents in __1984__ don’t seem to “love” their children very much, but if they were to, their children may possibly love them back. If children loved their parents, as most children in our society do, they would not want to harm them in any way, which would mean not spying on your parents and turning them into the Though Police. Bringing love back into the lives of people would cause Big Brother to then lose his biggest task force, his junior spies. Also, if Julia were right and people would no longer be excited for Three-Year Plans, Two Minutes Hate, and the rest of their “bloody rot”, Big Brother would no longer be praised. Without constant praise, the people of Oceania may come to realize how horrible of a leader Big Brother is, which could cause the government to be overthrown. The bigger picture is that since sex is a whole other kind of world in itself and it cannot be controlled, it must be destroyed. By allowing people to have sex, Big Brother and the Party would risk the people becoming too fond of the act and finding love in it, which would put their political career at risk, which Big Brother would never allow to happen. Most teenagers, such as I, can connect to book two of __1984__ by George Orwell easily. Just as Julia secretly handed Winston that first note, many teenagers experience those shy first words. Whether it’s the boy talking to the girl first, or in Julia and Winston's case, the girl talking to the boy first, there is never much to say when you experience "love at first sight", though many teenagers probably don't start with their first words being "//I love you//". Julia and Winston also do not show any public display of  GCrawley/Page 4 affection, or even any public display of anything. This could be the case is many teenager's relationships. Whether it's disapproval by friends or by parents, there are many reasons to hide a relationship. I have a friend who doesn’t have an "official" relationship with this boy, but they are pretty close. She hides, or tries to hide, her relationship with him from the majority of her friends and family because he has, or had, a girlfriend. Her situation is kind of similar to Julia and Winston's, since Winston is technically still married, yet he is still secretly with Julia. By showing any form of public display of affecting, my friend and her boy would be jeopardizing their relationship, but Julia and Winston would be jeopardizing their lives. Another similarity between Julia and Winston's lives and the lives of teenagers, is the need for privacy in many ways. Julia and Winston are longing for a place where they could just be happy together. Neither of them likes Big Brother or the way he runs Oceania. Big Brother is preventing Winston from divorcing Katherine so that he and Julia could pursue their happiness. He is preventing them from being able to spend more time together, since they have to arrange secret meeting at different places. Big Brother is just all together preventing any kind of successful relationship. Many teenagers could potentially see their parents as Big Brother in this way. Parents don’t allow their children to be alone in their bedrooms with their boyfriend of girlfriend. Parents don’t allow their children to be alone period with their boyfriend of girlfriend the majority of the time. So, just as Winston and Julia do, teenagers sneak. They sneak their boyfriends or girlfriends in their house when parents aren’t home, and teenagers sneak out. When parents don't allow their child to be in a relationship with someone period, they sneak. Just as Big Brother tries to keep Winston GCrawley/Page 5 from Julia by keeping him married to Katherine, he sneaks. The worst thing that comes from trying to keep Julia and Winston separate, and teenagers especially, is the secret sex, which never leads to anything good. Thus, the relationship between Winston and Julia displayed in book two so far is much like the relationships of many teenagers today. When writing the novel __1984__, I believe George Orwell was trying to accomplish the task of informing readers of the extremes totalitarianism can reach. Orwell did so by showing us the totalitarian government of Oceania through Winston’s eyes. I also believe Orwell was trying to create the theme of __1984__ to be a “timeless” theme, which he accomplished. The theme of __1984__ so far seems to be “the dangers of allowing government complete control of body and mind”, to me. Though all of the elements of a “good” piece of literature are included in this novel, the “timeless” theme is the most prevalent due to the fact that there will always be totalitarian governments and dictators as long as people are on this earth. There are several dictators that are currently in power, such as Fidel Castro of Cuba, Kim Jong-il of North Korea, Francois Duvalier of Haiti, and many others. Big Brother seemed to be a mirror image of two past dictators, Adolf Hitler of Germany and Joseph Stalin of the USSR. One similarity between these dictators is their use of propaganda. The second major use of propaganda used by Big Brother was first introduced on page 9, Two Minutes Hate. This technique of propaganda was very clever; it praised Big Brother as a savior, as if he was their God, and denounced Goldsteinism (capitalism) and opposition of Big Brother or the Party. The first major use of propaganda was seen on page 2 and 3, when Orwell described <span style="font-family: 'Antique Olive','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">GCrawley/Page 6 <span style="font-family: 'Antique Olive','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">the sight Winston saw every day when leaving or entering his home and all around Oceania. “…An enormous face more than a meter wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features,” explained Orwell, “…One of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.” Assumingly, this was a poster of Big Brother, which was plastered on every surface possible around Oceania. Kim Jong-il currently utilizes a similar technique in North Korea. Dictators propaganda are used to brainwash people into thinking something that’s really not that almighty is much better than honestly is. Big Brother, Hitler, Stalin, and Jong-il are also similar in the way that they control history and information heard by their people. It has been said that Stalin once took an inspirational battle speech by Trotsky, a great military leader, and replaced Trotsky with himself and the showed it all around the classrooms. Hitler controlled the films and decided what could be shown. All films creating bad critiques towards the party were banned and destroyed. Big Brother and the Party created a whole section of government, called the Ministry of Truth, devoted to altering history and current news which always seemed to change to something that glorified Big Brother. Jong-il is doing the same thing to the people of North Korea presently, not allowing them to hear news from anywhere else around the world and monitoring everything they read or listen to. These censorships were probably used to prevent citizens from learning of all the better places and governments outside of theirs, which could start a rebellion. Besides the obnoxious propaganda and news censoring, there is only one important sectors of every totalitarian government, <span style="font-family: 'Antique Olive','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">GCrawley/Page 7 <span style="font-family: 'Antique Olive','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">the secret police. During Hitler and Stalin’s rule, secret police forces were known to strike fear into the hearts of all people. They destroyed homes, families, and peoples’ lives. The bizarre thing was that all accused were based on assumptions by others, and not proven facts. Big Brother used children to spy on their parents and the Thought Police and since people’s thoughts cannot be actually read, all thought crimes were assumed by body language, etc. The United States also have secret police forces such as the CIA, FBI, etc., though we are a democracy and out secret police are used for honest intentions. Orwell showed the irrational ways of the secret police and how innocent people were killed on assumptions that were usually untrue. The secret police of all three parties were primarily concerned with bringing down any government opposers. With much supporting evidence, I believe George Orwell achieved his goal of educating me, as a reader, of the dangers of a powerful, manipulative totalitarian government.