Asquith girls’ high school Explore the ways in which your prescribed text represents the individual and collective human experience. Text: 1984 Texts provide insights into the human experiences through anomalies, paradoxes and inconsistencies in human behaviour and motivations. This can translate into collective and individual human experiences which is evident throughout 1984 through Orwell’s analysis on society and individuals. Throughout the novel Orwell utilises the juxtaposition of control and rebellion, the adaptation of love and imposition of fear to represent collective and individual experiences. The juxtaposition of control and rebellion creates psychological human experiences of conformity versus individualism by adapting individual character’s actions as well as societies. The adaptation of love highlights the importance to psychological and physical human experiences among individual and those shared with each other. Furthermore, the imposition of fear throughout Oceania propagates a collective conformity that can be seen within individuals throughout 1984. Therefore, through the analysis of Oceania and individual characters Orwell dictates individual and collective human experiences throughout 1984. The juxtaposition of control and rebellion throughout 1984 imposes a collective human experience and its evolution creates an individual human experience. Throughout Oceania Winston observes the ‘fear, hatred and pain’ and no ‘dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows’. The use of cumulative listing showcases the control that The Party has imposed upon Oceania creating a collective social human experience. Furthermore, the use of emotive language creates an emotional human experience by displaying the lack there of. Moreover, the control of the party ‘trying to kill the sex instinct or… distort it and dirty it’ creates a collective psychological human experience by warping the societal understanding of sex. The plosive ‘d’ alliteration within the quote also displays the individual physical human experiences by causing the absence of it. However, within 1984 Orwell also uses sex as a form of rebellion juxtaposing the control as Winston rebels through ‘the animal instinct, the simple undifferentiated desire: that was the force that would tear the party apart’. This emotive language demonstrates the individual physical and psychological human experience of rebellion that is displayed through Winston’s actions. Winston’s actions further create a juxtaposition of control and rebellion through the paradox of his experience within the ministry of love declaring ‘to die hating them that was freedom’. However, at the end of the novel he exclaimed ‘he had won the victory over himself. He loved big brother’. This juxtaposition and paradox display an individual psychological human to the audience showcasing the evolution of control and rebellion throughout the book. Consequently, Orwell juxtaposes rebellion and control creating both individual and collective human experiences throughout 1984. The adaptation of the nature of love within 1984 showcases the psychological and physical human experiences and the shared emotional experience with each other. Winston’s and Julia’s love can be displayed when Julia gives Winston note, ‘on it written, in large unformed handwriting: I LOVE YOU’. The visual imagery shows the collective human experience Winston and Julia share with each other. The capitalisation of the quote also further highlight’s Julia’s individual emotional human experience. This is further extended when Winston first meets Julia where ‘his heart bounded violently. He would have been incapable of speaking’ This exaggeration and imagery creates an emotional human experience analysing the impacts of the shared human experience of love has on the individual. The analysis of love is extended as Winston analyses a refugee mother ‘covering the little boy with her arm, which was no more use against the bullets than a sheet of paper.’ This violent imagery and simile display the emotional human experience of love creating a juxtaposition between that and, Winston’s and Julia’s. The differing nature of Winston’s and Julia’s love is also displayed through its changing nature; “’I betrayed you’ he said. She gave him another quick look of disgust’. This juxtaposition and descriptive language display the human experience of hatred showcasing the differing nature of Winston’s and Julia’s love. As such, the differing nature of Winston’s and Julia’s love throughout the novel creates a collective human experience between them as well as the individual. The nature of the party imposing fear upon society propagates the collective human experience creating individual human experiences. The nature of the party creates the collective psychological experience of fear throughout society with ‘most deadly danger of all (being) talking in your sleep’. The use of alliteration and plosive constant exhibits the penetration of fear within society and its impact on physical human experiences. Furthermore, the fear of the act of ‘conscious, gracious, suicidal folly. Of all the crimes… this was the least possible to conceal’ further extends the human experience of fear upon individuals within society. This is iterated through listing and consonance creating exaggeration iterating the fear within the character. The individual human experience of fear is also asserted on citizens by the party as witnessed by Winston’s observation of the neighbour’s children. ‘It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tier cubs which will soon grow up to be man eaters.’ This simile amplifies the fear within Winston’s life showcasing the individual human experience of the lack of hop in the future generation. Therefore, the nature of the party imposing fear on society creates bother the individual and collective human experience. As provided, texts provide insights into the human experiences through anomalies, paradoxes and inconsistencies in human behaviour and motivations. George Orwell uses this throughout 1984 to exemplify the collective and individual human experiences within Oceania. Within 1984 Orwell utilises the juxtaposition of control and rebellion, the adaptation of love and imposition of fear to represent collective and individual experiences. These ideas assist Orwell to impose emotional, psychological, social and physical human experiences both collectively, shred with characters and individually throughout the novel. Consequently, through the analysis of Oceania and individual characters Orwell dictates individual and collective human experiences throughout 1984.
