Kate Chopin's Motif In The Awakening

Kate Chopin’s motif in The Awakening is demonstrated throughout the novel of 1984. George Orwell’s novel is about a guy named Winston, who pretends to be someone he isn’t on the outside, and questions the government system he lives in, on the inside. In the novel, there was a major tension developing between Winston and the Party. According to Winston, life since the Party’s rule has been lived in fear and hatred. Anything you said out loud and even what you thought in your mind, could be detected by the telescreens. As a result, this led to Winston changing the way he act, thought, etc. For example, when Winston was working, he saw a photograph from the past that proved that three men were innocent and didn’t give away military secrets. After discovering the photo, Winston made sure that the telescreens didn’t get a good view of it, and tried to control his breathing and make his face expressionless; because, the photograph could “blow the Party to atoms.” However, controlling his outer expressions wasn’t enough. …show more content…
Although Winston didn’t like the Party and would have been glad to destroy the Party, he had to pretend to like them, or else he would get killed by them. Also, in a scene between Julia and Winston, Julia stated that “they can make you say anything-anything- but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you.” This demonstrated that no matter how hard the Party tried, they could only change Winston externally, not internally. Winston would pretend to preach and live by the Party’s beliefs and rules outwardly, but inside, he would question and try to revolt against the Party. Kate Chopin’s motif s “that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions,” can be directly applied to Winston. This contributed to the tension in the novel as a whole, because it was the main source of conflict for the main