seems to be trying to be both a love story and a tale of rebellion. The posts above suggest the
complexities that are offered in interpreting this novel in either way, and I agree with much of
what has been posted.
The fact that the rebellion fails as well as the
loyalty between the lovers, does not, to me, mean that the story'sare compromised or that the
book fails to be a "love story" or a "story of rebellion".
There are narrative flaws here that serve to erase or at least diminish the
effectiveness of the love story involved in 1984, regardless of the
potential centrality of this love to the text, and which also skew the
narrative toward its ultimate political statement, compromising the story and characters in
order to do so.
This is not a story, in the end, about people as individuals.
It is a book about how politics influence society, looking at an extreme situation wherein
rebellion is successful only insofar as it is acted upon with passion for a moment. When the
moment is over, the system wins.
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