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by tflol 742 days ago
a take I have on 1984, outside of the infamy, is that it's an epic romantic novel. Winston and Julia vs. the world.
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Julia was a plant[0] and Winston[1] is a terrorist*. It's about as romantic (look at their kill count!) as the underage fling[2] of Romeo(M16?) and Juliet(F13)?

People have to read 1984 in middle school, or at least before they have any life experience, in order not to spot the Potemkin cardboard of the frame[3] story.

[0] "so, how did you guys meet?"

[1] consider his answers when O'Brien tries to determine where his limits lie.

[2] although marrying them off has, in at least one case, been an effective way to defuse boys who had been trained as suicide bombers.

[3] "Theory and Practice" is Orwell's active ingredient; Julia and Winston are the sugar in the pill.

> People have to read 1984 in middle school,

And yet they don't underestand anything from it.

Only at the very end does Winston discover his true love?