"I love you." (Orwell 108).
This is a note that Winston is passed from the dark-haired girl, Julia. The fact that this note is passed to him by somebody he doesn't know at all and had no interaction with makes a statement about the decline of love in the Big Brother society. People are married, but the society is so stressful and all energy is translated to Big Brother, so these marriage are not in general happy ones, and disintegrate easily like Winston's. People are wanting for love, because it has not faded so entirely that it is forgotten. But it also forbidden to some degree, like Winston and Julia's love, so it must be more repressed, making it therefore more desirable.
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Excellent insights so far -- the St. Sebastian piece especially -- but where is Orwell as creator? Manipulator? Crafter? It feels like subjective commentary rather than carefully reasoned analysis with added comments
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