Sex of 1984

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Manipulation of Inter-gender Relationships in Nineteen Eighty Four

Is love a simple hobby of the past? That is the idea taken from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four. In a struggle to sort the truth from altered history, Winston Smith stumbles upon an enemy so great that not even Big Brother could totally erase. This enemy is called love. To protect loyalty to the party, all non social or strictly non procreative inter gender relationships are eliminated from Inner and Outer parties. Nineteen Eighty Four shows that inter gender relationships are easily manipulated and destroyed by government regulations, social views, and fear.

The relationships between males females are easily manipulated by government regulations in the novel. One method of achieving this is done by not allowing non procreative sex between couples. This is used to preserve all loyalty to the party. By engaging in sexual activity, the couple's purpose is to procreate on behalf of the party. Sex is illegal for all other purposes. Big Brother can disallow a couple to be married if he believes that the couple has other purposes for marriage other than having children. "The aim of the party was not merely to prevent men and women from fo

The end result of the government regulations, social views, and fear in attempt to manipulate intergender relationships comes out in the way Big Brother wants it. Our protagonist, Winston Smith, falls victim to the regulations, social views, and finally fear when he is finally broken. He who once was the only remaining man, has become a member of the new race, the Party.

"There were even organizations such as the Junior Anti-Sex League which advocated complete celibacy for both sexes. All children were to be begotten by artificial insemination(artsem as it was called in Newspeak"(57) Party members social views about inter gender relationships are so strong that couples break up if they can not conceive a child. In the novel, Winston and his wife Katharine separate because they could not conceive a child. "They must, she said, produce a child if they could. So the performance continued....Quite soon he grew to have a feeling of positive dread when the appointed day came round. But luckily no child appeared, and in the end she agreed to give up trying, and soon afterwards they parted"(58)

of the members allow them to stay away from sex and procreating only be artificial insemination.

As a result of the Party members social distaste for unorthodox sexual conduct, many prostitutes could be found in the proletarian section since Big Brother supports the corruption of the proles in attempt to further the Party members from such conduct. "The poorer quarters swarmed with women who were ready to sell themselves."(56)

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Approximate Word count = 1046
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English