he society into drones with only one desire, to love Big Brother. In 1984 the society obtains true power and maintains dystopia by controlling the power of love both in the filial and romantic sense. Children are brainwash at a young age not to love, but spy against their parents thus destroying the filial love. The children are persuaded to grow up and love only Big Brother. The Party has made the affection of making love to another as a vile and sinful act. "The aim of the Party was not merely to prevent men and women from forming loyalties which it might not be able to control. Its real, undeclared purpose was to remove all pleasure from the sexual act…. The party was trying to kill the sex instinct by distorting it and dirtying it"(Orwell 57). The mere understanding that sex was apart of love was made into be a sin in and of itself, but seen right by the party to have sex to gain new members. The party uses the Ministry of Love that implements tortures to keep control of love to achieve complete domination. Pain of torture is too much to bear as it can strip love and force one to betray, as one would do anything to stop the pain. "I don't care who it is or what you do to them. I've got a wife and three children... You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I'll stand and watch it. But not room 101!"(195). Here is an example of a prisoner who has been tortured for a long period of time by the Ministry of Love that he can stand it no longer, he is willing to do anything they command to stop the agony. Due to this excessive pain he is willing to witness his own spouse and offspring killed before him for the love of the party and not for his family. This is the same process that Winston and Julia went through as they betray each other.Winston and Julia’s severe torture destroys the romantic love they shared and leads to their mutual betrayal as they turn to love Big Brother and away f...
