Manipulation of Inter-gender Relationships in Nineteen Eighty Four Is love a simple hobby of the past? That is the idea taken from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four. In a struggle to sort the truth from altered history, Winston Smith stumbles upon an enemy so great that not even Big Brother could totally erase. This enemy is called love. To protect loyalty to the party, all non social or strictly non procreative inter gender relationships …showed first 75 words of 982 total…

…showed last 75 words of 982 total…inside the ministry of Love, nor within half a kilometer of it.”(8) 4 The end result of the government regulations, social views, and fear in attempt to manipulate intergender relationships comes out in the way Big Brother wants it. Our protagonist, Winston Smith, falls victim to the regulations, social views, and finally fear when he is finally broken. He who once was the only remaining man, has become a member of the new race, the Party.