Party (totalitarianism)

Party (totalitarianism)

1. SEX

   • pleasurable sex: Rebellion (freedom)
     • Winston's & Julia's sexual relationship: political act against Party

2. LOYALTY

   • duty to the party
     • betrayal will be punished
   • Big Brother: "God"
     • its existence not clear
     • People have to believe it exists
   • Family
     • The Junior Species: denouncers of their parents in the name of Big Brother
       • children vs. parents
   • Emmanuel Goldstein --> Brotherhood
   • Martyr: readiness to die for the beliefs in the party
     • war fever and leader worship

3. LOVE

   • Ministry of Love (Miniluv)
     • Room 101: torture in order to reshape one's thoughts
   • control of marriages and sexualities
   • --> Big Brother
   • abolished between persons
     • through their greatest fears: Winston--> enormous rats

4. erasing love for anything but Big Brother

5. duty: propagation

   • Winston's marriage with Katharine: failure --> no children

6. forces People to think whatever he wants (double think: 2+2=5)