1984 by George Orwell

The instructions are: “Choose one specific method of the Party’s control. First use quotes and other evidence to make the method as depicted in the novel completely clear to your reader. Then write about one specific current method of control, comparing it to the one in the novel, persuading the reader of the novel’s modern relevance. For this part, you might objectively report the facts, or you might take a stance, still using the facts to back you up.” So the method of control I’ve been planning to do is how the Party from the novel controls its citizens relationships and views on love and sex, because they practically brainwash the citizens that are members of the Party to have no desire for sex and they only get married in order to procreate, any pleasure from intimacy is prohibited. Then to connect that to a current method of control I was thinking to talk about how our government today is not as severe as the Party in 1984 but they still have laws against who’s allowed to get married, and my example is gay marriage laws. Then another example of how it could be compared to a current method of control is how certain religions are very strict with when sex is okay and some religions only reason to get married is to have kids, which is the same as in 1984. I could also include how many of us who are Christian are brought up nowadays to not have sex until marriage and stuff, which is not the same as 1984 but it’s still something that controls our views on sex and marriage. I made a really rough outline where my first body paragraph would be all about 1984 and explain how the Party controls its citizens relationships and views on sex. The second paragraph I was thinking would be about how our government today controls our relationships with the gay marriage/religions examples. And the third paragraph I’m not totally sure but it could be more of directly comparing the Party’s control methods with today’s government methods and how they are similar/different and how relevant they are. I started writing the first paragraph and it’s horribly written but this is it just so you have an idea, feel free to change it/fix it as much as you want:
“The party controls the people of Oceania in multiple ways, including their relationships and views on love. In the story, marriage is not too common, nor is it something they would look forward to. There is only one purpose for marriage, and that is procreation, it is in no way about love. In fact, if two people who were seeking to get married showed any sign of physical attraction to each other their marriage would not be permitted. Additionally, the party made gross efforts to try and distort if not diminish all desire for sex. Winston was married to a devoted member of the party named Katharine, who loathed being intimate with Winston so much so that “she would lie there with shut eyes, neither resisting nor co-operating, but submitting” (67). Having the desire for intimacy with another person is a natural human instinct, but the upper class citizens of Oceania are being so strongly brainwashed by the Party that they are able to kill that desire within the people. The only reason why Katharine and Winston ever had sex was to try and procreate because it was their, as Katharine put it, “duty to the Party” (67). However, after trying for a while with no success they gave up and got a divorce, which shows how little attachment they had towards each other, despite them being married to each other.”

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