'We are the dead ... you are the dead'. An examination of sexuality as a weapon of revolt in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

This article examines sexuality as a weapon of revolt in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The sexual relationship between Winston and Julia is scrutinis ed in terms of its effectiveness as a means of mutiny against, both, the om nipresent Party surveillant mechanisms and the underpinning thought-control and sex-control exercised by the Party. Some discrepancy is noted in Orwel l's depiction of women and an attempt mane to contextualise this within Orw ell's own experiences as described through various biographers.