No Humanity In George Orwell's Novel '1984'

No Humanity in 1984 Mrs. Parsons looks anxiously about the room, peering around corners to see if the children were nearby. Winston starts to bend down when Mrs. Parsons starts to say, “Of course if Tom was home he’d put it right in a minute. He loves anything like that. He’s ever so good with his hands, Tom is.” She stops abruptly. Boots trample then –BOOM! The children bursts into the living room, Mrs. Parsons’ shaking vigorously of fear (Orwell 21-24). Mrs. Parsons’ reaction towards her own children shows a loss of family values from the loss of humanity in George Orwell’s novel 1984. This same system can be seen even in today’s totalitarian regimes. The Party knows how to manipulate its citizens, even its young children. Growing up Winston always thought he had murdered his mother or at least cause her disappearance. As his family grew up scrounging for food, the incident that would haunt his life forever occurred. This is when his mother gives a large piece of the chocolate ration to Winston with a small piece for his ill-stricken sister. Unsatisfied, he
The loss of unity within the family causes Winston, as an adult, to look back and see how nebulous it was for him to do what he did. He slowly sees there is no loyalty and because of that Winston soon realizes, in an epiphany, that the Outer Party members are no longer “human beings” but are abject towards one another. In one instance as he and Julia lie in bed together, he suddenly says: “’The proles are human beings…We are not human,’” (165-166). From this Julia asks why not and he responds by saying the best thing for them both to do is walk out of the situation they’re currently in and never see each other again. At this point Winston starts to lose hope as a way of survival and the only reason one would do such an act is if the values of hope and prosperity are immutable by the government they are