Julia Of His Mother example essay topic
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The only thing a human being truly possess is his thoughts and feelings, and no person should ever tamper with these sacred belongings. In the case of Winston Smith, the main character in George Orwell's classic "1984", he losses his only possession; he losses his humanity. Winston Smith, like every other normal man hates, lusts, thinks, and most important of all loves, until The Party, the controlling power, breaks him down and rips his human tendencies out. That makes Winston change into a just another mindless member of The Party's Negative Utopia which was the exact opposite of what he was before, and what he ever wanted to become. Before The Party "broke" Winston he was a free spirited individual, and had the ability to dream, dream about the places he has been, the people he knew, lands he has not discovered, or even his fears. "It's the Golden Country... (Winston said) a landscape I've seen sometimes in a dream". (p 103) Winston discusses fondly with his lover Julia, the only person he has ever felt true love for, the place he dreams of finding. "In the dream he had remembered his last glimpse of his mother... ". (p 133) Here Winston tells Julia of his mother. Another characteristic Winston had was that of Love and Lust. "That was above all what he wanted to hear... the animal instinct, the simple undifferentiated desire". (p 104) At last he had a chance to experience true ecstasy, the animal instinct of sex.
The Party had prevented it until that moment. "Julia! Julia! Julia, my love! Julia!" ... In that moment he had loved far more then he had ever done... ". (p 230) Winston cries out for Julia in the Ministry of Love, after he had been bruttly beaten and tortured.
An individual can recognize and value of what true beauty really is such as waves crashing upon a shore the innocence of a child, or the song of a bird. "A thrush... began to pour forth a torrent of song". ... and... ". it was as though it were a kind of liquid stuff that poured all over him and got mixed up with the sunlight that filtered through the leaves". (p 103).
