Expectations Of Women In George Orwell's 1984

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In the novel 1984 women are not really mentioned, the only one that is generally mentioned is Julia. With all the commotion of women fighting their government for their rights, aren’t they homogeneous to Julia? Women today have expectations like the women in 1984 and they are both rebelling against their own government for a change. The expectations of women in today’s society are quite different than the expectations in 1984. The basic right of a women today is to fall in love with whomever they please and in 1984, women didn’t had the right to feel any type of endearment towards anyone. Some of the expectations of women is the need to look beautiful, sex and being parents.
For instance, the women in today’s society are expected to look beautiful. Wherever you go, most of the women you see will be wearing make up. There is no different whether the person is a child, a youth or a women, they are all trying to look and feel good towards …show more content…
If women were not expected to have children, then there wouldn’t be a next generation. Many women today have children when they are married, others when they are just in a relationship and others stay as single mothers. The percentage of women who are not married and have children in the U.S. is 40.3% from ages 15-44. In the novel 1984, the women who were married were supposed to have children, in the novel on page 67, Katherine mentions that making a baby was a duty to the party. If the women were to have children, they were told to teach them the ways of the party. In Part 3, Mr. Parson was caught by his own daughter, saying “Down with Big Brother” in his sleep, he was actually proud that his daughter had called the thought police to turn him in. This part of the book is very important, because it shows how both of the parents are supposed to teach their children since they are very young, to not ever betray their party and to turn in their own family if they have
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