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1984 Example Essay

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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.
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