1984: Duty Or Desire

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covers of the books, on banners , on posters and the
wrapping of the cigarette packing-every where the eye is watching you and
the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake ,in bath or in bed -no
escape"(p-26).
If Winston does anything out of order, a voice barks out
instructions. The Party frowns on art, on sex, on the life of the mind.
Their posters warn: "Big Brother is watching you". Every Party member knows
the worst crime of all is "Thought crime": having evil thoughts against the
Party or Big Brother. Winston is also troubled by dreams and memories of
better times, inspired by secret glances form O'Brien, a powerful member of
the Inner Party. Later on he finds a companion in Julia. At first they are
brought together by their mutual feelings of being rebels. Winston and
Julia rebel against the Party by having sex. But then these feelings change
and a beautiful relationship begins to evolve. Julia only had sex with the
party members if he could have a real sexual ...

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why Oceania is the way it is, if it
had always been this way, and if it could be changed. Winston also thinks
it is love like theirs that will destroy the Party.
The room over Mr. Chariongtopn's shop is their little paradise
where they were away from the eyes of the big brother and were lost in each
other. To Winston spending time with Julia was a dream come true . She was
not only the women that he had sexually fantasized about many times but she
also shared the same hatred for the Big brother. Since the time, he had
been with Julia he had grown healthier, his ulcer had subsided , he no
longer had impulses to make faces at the Tele screen or shout curses. The
reason of this ...

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