Aspects of Human Emotion and How it Fails in 1984
What makes us human? Is it the way we look or maybe the way we feel towards each other? Most people do not notice that what makes us human is the amount of sympathy and empathy we have for each other. One of which are the small gestures of compassion we have toward others. What happens when it is all questioned, like in Orwell’s book, then later thought to be wrong? Once it is deemed wrong, we as humans cannot be human. Soon we become expected to be in constant war, unable to see our friends, family or lover for who they are. As humans, we perceive ourselves as more important and others as comrades that are not loveable. Being easily controlled by the Party, unfortunately, is the normal life of people in 1984 like Winston Smith who …show more content…
This trait is exemplified when he says, “If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.” (164) He is saying that love is stronger than any material thing that causes humans to be happy. Along with love, people as humans need emotions that give off thoughts of empathy and sympathy towards others. Winston was thinking about his family when he was with Julia. He told her, “‘Do you know,’ he said, ‘that until this moment I believed I had murdered my mother?’... ‘I didn’t murder her. Not physically.’” (160) Within this new process of emotions, Winston thinks more and more of others, causing him to believe that he himself is more likely to be human. Winston’s process through the book is now complete when he displays this with Julia, “And yet, in the sense in which he intended the word, he had not betrayed her. He had not stopped loving her; his feelings towards her had remained the same.” (274) Winston has now achieved his goal of becoming more like a human who can love someone, feel more than just what is seen, and have sympathy towards
What makes us human? Is it the way we look or maybe the way we feel towards each other? Most people do not notice that what makes us human is the amount of sympathy and empathy we have for each other. One of which are the small gestures of compassion we have toward others. What happens when it is all questioned, like in Orwell’s book, then later thought to be wrong? Once it is deemed wrong, we as humans cannot be human. Soon we become expected to be in constant war, unable to see our friends, family or lover for who they are. As humans, we perceive ourselves as more important and others as comrades that are not loveable. Being easily controlled by the Party, unfortunately, is the normal life of people in 1984 like Winston Smith who …show more content…
This trait is exemplified when he says, “If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.” (164) He is saying that love is stronger than any material thing that causes humans to be happy. Along with love, people as humans need emotions that give off thoughts of empathy and sympathy towards others. Winston was thinking about his family when he was with Julia. He told her, “‘Do you know,’ he said, ‘that until this moment I believed I had murdered my mother?’... ‘I didn’t murder her. Not physically.’” (160) Within this new process of emotions, Winston thinks more and more of others, causing him to believe that he himself is more likely to be human. Winston’s process through the book is now complete when he displays this with Julia, “And yet, in the sense in which he intended the word, he had not betrayed her. He had not stopped loving her; his feelings towards her had remained the same.” (274) Winston has now achieved his goal of becoming more like a human who can love someone, feel more than just what is seen, and have sympathy towards