1984 By George Orwell

At the beginning of the year, Kellyanne Conway used the phrase “alternative facts” instead of the more commonly used word “lies.” After Kellyanne said this, the USA was immediately reminded of Winston Smith and what he had to go through in 1984 by George Orwell. In 1984, Winston Smith disagrees with the lifestyle of the corrupt world in which he lives in, called Oceania. He breaks the rules that the government lives by, one of which includes loving another human being. The government thrives on the thoughtlessness of the people living in it, and people are not allowed to have sex with someone else without the intent of procreation. The government limits love and sex to maintain control on the citizens living in Oceania.
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At the beginning of the story, Winston meets a beautiful young woman, whom he does not know the name of. She has dark hair and has a sash for the Junior Anti-Sex League, a club for young adults who promise to never have sex. Her wearing this drove Winston mad, because he wanted her, but he couldn't have her. The League was made so that people would never have sex in general and it taught that "Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation, like having an enema" (65). The Party made this to control the minds of the youth so that they would be more loyal to the Party. If the citizens of Oceania believe that sex is a disgusting act, they will not want to have sex. How “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” (110-111). People do not have time to be loyal to the Party if they are with their partner all of the time, and the Party wants them to be loyal all of the time, so the Party wants to ban sex for pleasure and make it only for procreation. Later in the story, when Winston was caught and tortured, O’Brien says to him that “I will
When Winston was a child, the revolution was beginning. He lived in the lower class with his mother and sister. Winston's mother was extremely hard working and she loves her children with all of her heart, but Winston did not know this. When Winston was young, he was extremely greedy and took food from his mother and sister all of the time. He stole chocolate from his sister and ran off, when he returned, they were gone, and Winston was left all alone, and “The thing that just now suddenly struck Winston was that his mother's death, nearly thirty years ago, had been tragic and sorrowful in a way that was no longer possible. Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there was still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason. His mother's memory tore at his heart because she had died loving him, when he was too young and selfish to love her in return, and because somehow, he did not remember how, she had sacrificed herself to a conception of loyalty that was private and unalterable” (28). Winston did not know at the time that what he was doing was wrong and would eventually separate him from his mother. Winston did not know what love was and would not have cared for his mother even if she died. He now knows how impactful his mother’s disappearance was, because he feels responsible