Stereotypes Of Women In 1984

Women are life, they play variety of significant roles in our society from their birth till the end of life. Even after playing her all the roles and all the job timely and efficient manner in the society she is still considered weak because men are still considered the strongest gender of the society. Even after lost of awareness programmes, rules and regulations in the society by the government, her life is more complicated than a man. She has to take care of herself and family and as independent work. Women play a great role in everyone's life without whom we cannot imagine the success of life. They are the highly responsible for the successful continuation on this planet. Earlier they were considered as only wives and mother who have …show more content…
Society taught itself that icon of masculinity is directly related to the weakness of females. Women in 1984 were very much stereotyped as weak and useless and only as reproduction tools to release sexual desire of the males, or at least for winston as orwell had put it weakness of women could be seen from the scene when Mrs. Parson asked winston to fix her pipe and in winston's vision where he saw london as “vast and ruinous” it indirectly pointed out winton's agreement to have a wife or to live with a women was just for the sake of his desire living in a society where love and being loves was the uttermost impossibility and the pleasure of sexual act was banished thought. But, this role of the women was meant to be kept a secret from the party. The role of women being used as tools for reproduction was not hard to note since the party only allowed sexual intercourse for married couple and it's easy to relate how women bestowed to this role. Winston Smith would have continued to serve his government without question and completely lack masculinity had it not been for the women in his life. Winston’s mother, his wife Katherine, and co­worker Julia each played a vital role in Winston’s road to rebellion and search for freedom. As each woman is introduced in the novel, it sends him farther and farther into a state of urgency to escape the unrelenting control of Big Brother. Julia is the person who has the most influence over him as he begins to rebel against Big Brother. She is the person that make him realize the most that he is unhappy under the rule of big brother, and is the reason that he begins to rebel. Each of the women are described in specific ways to show their different personalities according to Winston and emphasize the power that the influence of women can have. The first woman to make an impact in Winston’s life is his mother. She was