Julia says the Party cant get inside you.

In what ways does Orwell show this is not true? Orwells 1984 look at a future society under a totalitarian regime; it is a society in which state holds a very tight grip over its subject. The party is an omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient. The party demands not only complete obedience but also the love of the people. Love between individuals is a thought crime for which they can be vaporized. Winston and Julia meet for pure physical desires but gradually it turns into love. At the same time Winston is constantly afraid of the consequences even when he waits for Julia at their rented flat, he thinks of the dark cellars of the Ministry of Love. What terrified Winston more is the fear of Betraying Julia. He shares this feeling with Julia and she assures him that, Party cant get inside you. Orwell shows the dark irony of this statement in the closing chapter where Winston meets Julia and tells her that he betrayed her. On the other hand Julia also tells that she had betrayed him. The power of party propaganda is not limited to ones outlook towards politics but also affects the inner emotions of the individual. Winstons torture in the final part shows another way through which party changes the whole consciousness of an individual. OBrien treats Winston as a victim of some mental sickness. He uses the pain of torture in combination with the moments of sympathy the degradation of Winstons body is a reflection of his breaking spirit. Orwell gives very grotesque (some thing very disgusting) description of Winstons degraded state. With an equally dark irony he shows how Winston reacts to the occasional sympathy showed by OBrien. OBrien as his torturer accomplishes two things. He breaks Winstons idealism by telling him that Julia has betrayed him. On the other hand he also shows the biggest fear: Rats. While OBrien and Julias betrayal disillusions him, the fear of rats scares him out of his idealism. He shouts over and over Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! , I dont care what you do to her. He forgets his earlier belief and embraces Big Brother as his only love. OBrien summaries this change when he says What happens to you here is forever The torture creates something which becomes you. Even Julia admits it when she meets Winston at the chestnut caf. Orwell shows it in his typical dark irony when he shows Winston remembering a voice singing Under the spreading chestnut I sold you and you sold me

Winston thinks that the reality of modern life is 'decaying, dingy cities' with 'underfed people' 1984 depicts a very gloomy picture of a society under a totalitarian regime. INGSOC, the party which rules the state has created a permanent state of poverty and ignorance and put the society in stagnation. Winston, the protagonist of the novel, is dissatisfied with party because he thinks that party has reduced all the individuals to a miserable state. Orwell sets the tone of the novel from the very beginning. The building in which Winston lives is described as very shabby place. The lift doesnt work, the hallway smell of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. The view of the city outside is equally bad. London, chief city of airstrip one is shown disintegrating the houses are 19th century structures which are rotting now, their sides are repaired now with wood, windows are patched with cardboard and roofs are of corrugated iron. Orwell describes it as sordid colonies of wooden dwellings like chicken houses. This poverty and disintegration is further described when Orwell describes the living standard of the outer party members. Winston has just a piece of dark coloured bread for his next days breakfast. The gin is described as a colourless liquid which gives a sickly and oily smell. In that way we can see how Orwell succeeds in portraying the common poverty and scarcity of the people. While in the opening chapter Orwell describes the poverty dinginess of the outer party members, in the later chapters we are also given a glimpse of the suburb where the proles live. The proles life is described as a degenerated to the extent of savagery. He describes the cobbled street with little houses which have broken doors and infested with rats. The description of ragged bare footed children and old bent creatures show the kind of life proles live. Young guys chasing the girls show sexual promiscuity of the proles. Orwell uses a realistic mode of narration to describe the future world of 1984. The graphic detail with which he describes the life around, the unmistakable poverty and dinginess strike the readers imagination very forcefully. The ironic detachment of the narrative makes this even more impact.

Explore one incident in the novel in which Orwell most vividly shows the power of the state. 1984 explores the way in which a totalitarian regime holds a strong grip over its subjects. It is through the character if Winston that Orwell shows us how party maintains its control. The very opening of the novel introduces us to a world of surveillance, oppression and manipulation. However, Winstons torture and consequent conversion shows how the party controls not only the external reality but internal feeling as well. During Winstons torture, OBrien treats him as a victim of mental sickness. He tells Winston how the whole torture process is a therapeutic device through which they change the very individual. He tells Winston what happens to you here is forever. The torture is an elaborate process. Other convicts like poet Ampleforth and parsons instill a sense of fear in him. All the time Winston spends in cell is a part of torture. Every moment he is reminded of the pain that awaits him. Coming of OBrien shatters his last hope. Winston is subjected to intense physical pain and great humiliation, this humiliation create a sense of self sensitivity. It shatters the self respect of Winston. Orwell uses a very grotesque description of Winstons physical and mental deterioration. OBrien, who is torturer of Winston, also convinces him that he is trying to save Winston from his own delusions. He was tormenter, he was the protector, he was inquisitor, he was the friend. It shows the ultimate power of the state. Party not only controls peoples lives but also controls their emotions and can turn them in their desired way. This episode shows the complete subjection of the masses to the will of the party. Party commands not only fear but also their love. The way party succeeds in changing Winstons heart and turning him into an orthodox party member proves the ultimate power of the state.