This section of the story explores the extent to which humans naturally desire love, through the characters of Winston and Julia. The reader witnesses that humans are willing to risk everything to follow their natural desires. The second part of “1984” illustrates the Party’s tactic of suppressing natural human tendencies in order to maintain power over the people. The Party strives to keep its people ignorant and distracted so that they do not realize they are being used to promote the wealth of a very minute class of individuals that serve at the top level of the Party. This part of the novel uses the desires and pursuits of Winston and Julia to demonstrate that the Party is suppressing and distracting a majority of its peoples desires in
