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Hi, I need help with essay on The Stereotypical Image of a Woman in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four. Paper must be at least 1000 words. Please, no plagiarized work!

She is the realist about the system and she believes that a true rebellion could only be carried out secretly and individually. In spite of being part of the Anti-Sex League, she chose to be free about her choices and to decide about her own body.

This argument has been used to claim the opposite, that Orwell's vision of women was limited, thinking of Julia as the forbidden, the fun and sexually active, pretty but not so smart girl. while only mothers were honorable and cause for admiration. Orwell's famous line: "You're Only a Rebel from the Waist Downwards" can be thoroughly discussed. it has even become the title of a feminist critic text by Anne Mellor.

This critic points that "the roles assigned to women in Oceania and in Winston Smith's mind fall into very limited stereotypes: the pure self-sacrificing mother, the frigid wife, the sexually aggressive and emotionally supportive mate." (Mellor,1983 in Reed, 1984).

Is it possible that the same writer that talked about a totalitarian system in one of his most influential works ever, had an attitude as conservative and repressed as the Party in the book I hope not?

I don't believe that by making his female characters look somewhat stereotyped, Orwell was trying to encourage people to praise that, but the opposite. I think he was pointing his finger towards a world that shouldn't be like that.

Let's have a look at the other female characters. For Winston, hope was symbolized by the Prole mother. He wrote: "If there is hope it is in the proles." The prole mother, although it may be seen as a stereotypical character, I believe the author meant her to be that way because her purpose in the story is to precisely to symbolize hope. She is a woman who will give birth to a future generation free of the totalitarian system. She is a symbol, and that is why perhaps her character seems so exaggerated and superficial.