Winston wants to know not only what Totalitarianism is, but why Totalitarianism came into being. But Julia doesn't give it a second thought. Her simplicity and carelessness showed in the first two parts of the book make her final betrayal of Winston sound only reasonable. O'Brien tells Winston that "She betrayed you, immediately-unreservedly I have seldom seen anyone come over to us so promptly. "[10]
Love is a kind of higher level for human feelings than sex instinct. When Winston finally says "Do it to Julia", it means he has given up his pursuit of love due to his instinct of protecting himself. The Party demands its people to be humans deprived of free thinking, human feelings and physical desires. The Party does not want a society of diversity. What it wants most is to rule people through obscurantism and coercion and make them serve the needs of the Party. The way the Party rules the people is just like a farmer raises his poultry. He takes out what he needs from his poultry but does not give them what they need like freedom and welfare. The lives of his poultry are only to serve the selfish needs of the farmer.
In Nineteen Eight-Four, when Winston and Julia are faced with choices between giving up or holding their faith, they both eventually make choices that are against their will. People that have grown up under the ruling of the Party do not have the ability to sacrifice. The Party can destroy one's courage to sacrifice oneself by using extremely cruel tortures.
2.3.2 The Communist Party Controlling Winton’s Love for His MotherWinston's vague memory about his mother and family shows his gradually deepened understanding of love, which helps him to come to realize that proles are more humane than Party members because they care about each other. Winston's attitude towards proles changes as the novel develops. At the beginning he thinks proles are somewhat inferior to others, owing to their lower social status and poor educational background. However, deprived of human feelings, intelligent people like O'Brien are not worth the title of human. They are just brutal animals.
Winston has a vague feeling that his mother sacrifices for him. The book does not tell us how she does it. However, what Orwell tried to imply here is the contrast between people in the past and people in the present. Such sacrifice just does not exist in the present time.
Winston’s mother is in contrast with Julia and Winston, as a boy, who are selfish for their own needs. But she shares some similarity with the proles. Both she and proles are loyal to private feelings.
The terrible thing that the Party had done was to persuade you that impulses, mere feelings, were of no astound, while at the same time robbing you of all power over the material world. When once you were in the grip of the Party, what you felt or did not feel, what you did or refrained from doing, made literally no difference. Whatever happened you vanished, and neither you nor your actions were ever heard of again. You were lifted clean out of the stream of history. And yet to the people of only two generations ago this would not have seemed all-important, because they were not attempting to alter history. They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. [11]
Apparently, Orwell placed love above material things. To sacrifice oneself for truthful feeling is the most heroic expression of one's pursuit of ideal and love, and is the extreme embodiment of humanity for the pursuit of beauty and perfection. However, in Oceania, there is no possibility to sacrifice for one's ideal, no existence of beautiful things. Everywhere was imbued with the triumph of despotism over humanity.
To be cared about and to care about others-to be loved and to love-is most people's wish, thus it should be one aspect of humanity.. It places the love for Big Brother above all the other loves, such as the interpers
