The
principal human relationship at the heart
of the story of is betweenand .
The love between two
people, as basic as it is to human existence, is the very thing most at
odds
with the Party's "philosophy"its requirement of the way people should act.
The
fact that even by "traditional" standards Winston and Julia are in an
illicit
relationship is an additional part of their "heresy," and it's ironic
that in this
sense the Party seems to be in agreement with the old,
pre-dystopian world that has been
overturned.
But the
very idea of love and passion is antithetical to the
Party's aim of
controlling people and reducing them to the...
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