Essay On Women In 1984 And A View From The Bridge
The role and portrayal of women in the novel 1984 (George Orwell) and the play A View From The Bridge (Arthur Miller).
1984 is a dystopian novel written in 1949 by George Orwell. This novel talks about the story of Winston Smith and presents the world in the year 1984, after a global atomic war. This novel is placed in Airstrip one, a province of Oceania ,where everything is controlled by Great Brother and his party,and shows a cruel and degraded society. Winston is a civil servant working for the party and we can see his gradual development, his intellectual rebellion and his illicit romance with Julia which consequently cause his imprisonment, interrogation, torture, and re-education by the thought police.
A View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller first staged on 29 September 1955. It is set in 1950s America, in an Italian American neighbourhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. The main character in the story is Eddie Carbone, an Italian American longshoreman, who lives with his wife, Beatrice and his orphaned niece, Catherine. Nothing seems really outstanding up …show more content…
Julia’s other side is much more interesting. She is a woman with raging hormones and a cunning spirit. A highly sexual being, she sleeps with Party members regularly to satisfy her own desires. Does she really mean it as rebellion, or does she just want to get it on? You could argue either way. Winston would sure like it to be the former, and Julia does suggest that her acts are her own small rebellion. But still, she is generally uninterested in fighting the good fight. In fact, the reason she approached Winston with the "I love you" note was probably to start yet another illicit affair. She busies herself with community service and other orthodox activities so that she can escape the Party’s thoughtcrime
1984 is a dystopian novel written in 1949 by George Orwell. This novel talks about the story of Winston Smith and presents the world in the year 1984, after a global atomic war. This novel is placed in Airstrip one, a province of Oceania ,where everything is controlled by Great Brother and his party,and shows a cruel and degraded society. Winston is a civil servant working for the party and we can see his gradual development, his intellectual rebellion and his illicit romance with Julia which consequently cause his imprisonment, interrogation, torture, and re-education by the thought police.
A View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller first staged on 29 September 1955. It is set in 1950s America, in an Italian American neighbourhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. The main character in the story is Eddie Carbone, an Italian American longshoreman, who lives with his wife, Beatrice and his orphaned niece, Catherine. Nothing seems really outstanding up …show more content…
Julia’s other side is much more interesting. She is a woman with raging hormones and a cunning spirit. A highly sexual being, she sleeps with Party members regularly to satisfy her own desires. Does she really mean it as rebellion, or does she just want to get it on? You could argue either way. Winston would sure like it to be the former, and Julia does suggest that her acts are her own small rebellion. But still, she is generally uninterested in fighting the good fight. In fact, the reason she approached Winston with the "I love you" note was probably to start yet another illicit affair. She busies herself with community service and other orthodox activities so that she can escape the Party’s thoughtcrime