1984 Theme Analysis

The first theme in 1984 is that people who care about you will almost do anything for you, “ ‘I’m sorry,’ he said; ‘it’s nothing. I don’t like rats, that’s all.’ ” “ ‘Don’t worry, dear, we’re not going to have the filthy brutes in here. I’ll stuff the hole with a bit of sacking before we go. And next time we come here I’ll bring some plaster and bung it up properly.’ ” (Orwell, 317) If Julia will do whatever it takes for Winston, then she is acting out of love. We saw the same love three years ago during the Sandy Hook shooting. Some teachers sacrificed themselves just so the children could live.
This other piece of evidence proves that people who care about you will almost do anything for you. Winston and Julia meet up with O’Brien and discus about joining an organization against the party. The Party wants to take away love forever but there are lots of people who disagree with the Party, a man named O’Brien is
Winston is in his house and was sitting down with his diary a few feet away from a telescreen, “The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary. This was not illegal (nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws), but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death, or at least by twenty-five years in a forced-labour camp.” If it is punishable by death or being sentenced to a forced-labor camp just to write in a diary, then the people of Oceana do not have very much freedom at all because of the people who run Oceana basically control them. This is even happening today, look at the people of Mauritania. The rich people of Mauritania are allowed to hire poor people as slaves. Most of the people in Mauritania are poor which makes them automatically slaves. The slaves hate this and will sometimes stand up to their owners, which will result with a consequence, but that doesn't stop anyone else from standing up for what they believe is