摘要

英国小说家乔治•奥威尔在其小说1984中描绘了一个极权主义盛行的社会，其生动逼真的描写给读者带来了深深的震撼，并使这部小说成为了近代西方文学的一部经典。在小说中，奥威尔揭示了极权主义政权通过限定人们的日常生活，监视人们的行为和控制人们的思想来保证自己永久的统治地位，这使得人们过着困顿的生活，被磨灭了人性和基本的情感，而且由于极权的压制使得个体被孤立，个体之间无法进行真正的交流。除此之外，作者在小说中浓墨重彩地描写了一段发生在主人公温斯顿身上的爱情故事，为这部压抑的、政治色彩浓郁的小说添加了鲜活的一笔，而不禁使人思考作者在小说添增这条线索的用意。通过分析温斯顿和茱莉亚的相爱和爱情破灭的过程，以及他们在这种压抑的社会的社会环境下不顾生命危险相恋的原因，可以发现这段爱情描写与小说的核心的主题——极权主义——有极其紧密的联系。事实上，小说中的爱情描写是为了突出极权主义这个核心主题，更加突显极权主义对人类和人类社会的危害。不仅如此，爱情描写在一定程度上升华了小说主题，除了对极权主义的披露，更是表现了人性的光辉以及爱这一情感对人类的伟大意义。

关键词：1984，极权主义，核心主题，爱情，联系  

Abstract

The English novelist George Orwell creates a society ruled by totalitarianism in his novel 1984. His clear and vivid portrait astounds the readers, winning for the novel the position of a classic in modern western literature. In the novel, Orwell exposes how totalitarian power controls people’s daily life, behaviors and thoughts in order to make its rule last forever. As a result, people in such a society live miserable lives, deprived of humanity and basic emotions. Meanwhile, they are isolated as lonely individuals without true communication with others. Against this backdrop, the author describes the protagonist Winston’s love story with Julia, which enlivens the otherwise totally depressing atmosphere of the work. Readers are prompted to speculate on the author’s intentions to include this element of love. Through the analysis of the process of falling love and the breaking of the relationship, and the reasons for these two characters’ decision to love regardless of dangers in such a cruel and hostile environment, we can find the close relationship between the description of love and the core theme of totalitarianism. In fact, the description of love is used to stress the core theme, which can better reveal the harm of totalitarianism to human beings and human society. What’s more, the love story deepens the core theme, which, while exposing the trauma of totalitarianism, attests to the greatness of humanity and the importance of love.

Key words: 1984, totalitarianism, the core theme, the description of love, relationship