Themes in 1984

The paperweight is a metaphor for their relationship because Julia and Winston, like the coral, are trapped in something bigger, stronger and mesmerising. The glass around the coral/Julia and Winston is the Party and the society. Like the paperweight, Julia and Winston aren’t supposed to be together.

In writing 1984, Orwell’s main goal was to warn of the serious danger totalitarianism poses to society. He goes to great lengths to demonstrate the terrifying degree of power and control a totalitarian regime can acquire and maintain.

• Theme #1. Totalitarianism.
• Theme #2. Propaganda.
• Theme #3. Subversion of Reality.
• Theme #4. Subversion of Love and Feelings.
• Theme #5. Loss of Identity and Independence.
• Theme #6. Political Loyalty.
• Theme #7. Class System.
• Theme #8. Controlled Information and Rewriting of History.

These include:

• Psychological manipulation. The Party barrages its subjects with psychological stimuli designed to overwhelm the mind’s capacity for independent thought.
• symbols. .
• The paperweight.
• St.
• The Place Where There Is No Darkness.
• The Telescreens.
• The Red-Armed Prole Woman.
• WINSTON’S MOTHER.

How important is it to Winston’s brainwashing? Doublethink is equally crucial to Winston’s gradual conversion to loving Big Brother because it enables him to accept his torturers’ words as true, even though his own fading memories—of the photograph of the three Party traitors, for instance—contradict them.

death

In the George Orwell book Nineteen Eighty-Four, an Unperson is someone who has been vaporized. Vaporization is when a person is secretly murdered and erased from society, the present, the universe, and existence.

So a person would be vaporized: He’d heat up so hot, that the whole body will become a gas.

Ch 3: Why can’t Winston and Julia get married? Winston and Julia can not get married because they are committing adultery and would go to prison or executed.