In the old days, he thought, a man looked at a girl’s body and saw that it was desirable, and that was the end of the story. When Winston wakes up next to Julia and reflects upon the sex they have had, he understands that there are no pure personal emotions unsullied by the political. Indeed, when Winston does sleep with the dreamed-of Julia, we only receive confirmation that even his most intimate act is sullied into something political. Such gestures and feelings belong “to the ancient time.” Winston can discern and even admire such a triumphantly human response to totalitarianism, but he himself cannot feel the same way. Such an intimate sexual fantasy is still reduced to an instinctual political rebellion. That too was a gesture belonging to the ancient time”. With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm. In continuation of his dream, he sees Julia a coworker and future lover, and he is filled with “admiration for the gesture with which she had thrown her clothes aside. His fuzzy dream memories are personal, but the emotion in them belongs to a dead world. Winston can perceive all of these emotional nuances, but his acute perception does not aid him in feeling those “deep or complex sorrows” arising from love. Today, without “privacy, love, and friendship” there cannot be his mother’s “dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows”. However, even in a confused dream he realizes that at the time he “was too young and selfish to love her in return” and that now that she is gone there is no chance for him to love her. It is unsurprising, then, that he dreams of his lost mother and perhaps even grieves for her unconsciously. In his unconscious, he harbors pre-revolution memories of his now gone mother and sister. Winston cannot even experience love, the very pinnacle of human emotion. The diary becomes an abject symbol of the emotion Winston is incapable of. He then proceeds to write “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” several times in fact, everything he writes in his diary is political, from reflections on his future execution to musings on thoughtcrime and doublethink.
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Finally, his first rush of words recounts a movie he has seen: a political movie. He thinks about his audience possibly the future clearly he cannot conceive of a diary written purely for himself out of personal reasons it must be for some political purpose. He goes on to think about for whom the diary is written. He has no idea what to write he possesses nothing personal to write down in a diary.
He gets as far as the date, and then “A sense of complete helplessness had descended upon him…”. The novel opens with Winston beginning diary perhaps the most obvious symbol of the personal. For Winston, “The thing that has been cut away” is his personal emotions what he does or believes that he feels is primarily political. Only when Winston the wasp tries to “fly away did he grasp the dreadful thing that had happened to him…The thing that has been cut away is his soul…”. Mostly Winston is like the wasp that Orwell cut in half, which he describes in a book review. We never see Winston as a whole human being, completely capable of emotion. Power through destroying emotions in 1984 Each episode of the novel is a battle within Winston to resist the Party’s inexorable emotional stranglehold. In 1984, the Party cuts away the very heart of the human, until without the personal, the only emotions that exist are decreed and owned by the Party. Power is the ability to annihilate someone by destroying their personal emotions, and then to recreate them until the world is populated by copies of the one model of your choice. While asserting power by causing pain might be an arresting theme, the driving power in the novel derives from the linked notions of annihilation and reconstruction.
In a novel where the governing Party is as much a character as any individual person, the intricacies of power certainly give each scene deeper implications.
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