Friday, August 22, 2008

What is the desired result of scientific reproduction in the novel 1984 by George Orwell?


Because the Party (Big Brother) requires absolute conformity and obedience, it can't risk people
developing relationshipswhich involve intimacy, love, and trustbecause then a person's loyalty
would be divided between the government and his or her lover. Thus, the Party makes sexthe most
intimate physical act between two peopletaboo and pleasureless. Under the rule of the Party,
"sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation, like
having an enema" and in the future "all children were to be begotten by artificial
insemination (ARTSEM, it was called in...

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