1984 Essays (1405 words) - Mass Surveillance, Nineteen Eighty-Four

1984 Journal #3 Never before have I witnessed such a blunt interpretation of how Orwell perceives this life we all live, how brutal and honest it can be. And also vice versa, the lies cheating and hatred that go on every day, not so far off from the life experienced in 1984 and our lives now. Throughout this last section of the story, we were mostly placed in this ironic Ministry of Love that Winston had to go through. One of the main things that stood out to me was his resilience, up to a certain point. The point where everything broke down and, literally, the only way to survive were to give in to the enemy trying to conquer him. The ending of 1984 was everything I wanted it to be, shocking and controversial. That has been an overriding theme in this book throughout and I?m sure every reader is thinking, ?What is wrong with Orwell?s mind Throughout the scenes and chapters of Winston?s torture by O?Brian; the fact that it was so ironic was always in my mind. They are in the Ministry of Love, how could love even be an option in a torture zone. Room 101 also crawled under my skin. The images I received in my head through the blunt description of Orwell were hard to read. When Winston looked at himself in the mirror after days, months of torturing, his reaction was brutally honest. ?He had stopped because he was frightened?a crooked nose and battered looking cheekbones above which the eyes were fierce and watchful.? (pg. 223). This brought up the idea of denial, and almost the awful innocence that Winston had for his government. Throughout his journey, he had slightly doubted the way his life was planned out for him, yet he never truly believed how low his Big Brother companions would go. Even throughout the torture process, the pain was so unbearable he still refused to totally give in, realizing the fact that he was in over his head. It was not until he looked at his frail emaciated body that he took it all in. All the torture the pain and the fear that had built up inside him, it was overwhelmingly controlling. By looking at his almost dead body in front of him, knowing that his ?comrades? had done this to him, you would think that would be the end of Winston. He would be so angered at the position he had been placed in at the Ministry of Love that he would be done with this torture. Yet, he went in the opposite direction by totally giving in to the government and his thoughts. He also realized how strong the Room 101 was, and that he would be able to live if he gave in. That was the choice he made, his human life, or his own creative thoughts. He made the choice that changed his life th en and there, when he told himself, ?Everything is all right, the struggle was finished?he loved Big Brother.? (245). But would Winston do it again, would he fall in love with Julia over and over again? That exhilarating feeling of total lust and love for one person, something he had never felt for anyone before, how could it have vanished so quickly, without even a trace of remorse or feeling? He spent so much of his time loving and caring for Julia, when they were in Mr. Cunningham?s room I really thought that this love was true. In the back of my head, I was hoping that it would never have to come to betrayal between the two of them, but it did. Then I began to think, how true was this love that Winston had spent dreaming about, wanting so badly at all times. And, in an instant, ?All you care about is yourself,? he echoed?you don?t feel the same.? (240.) and just like that, the love ends in an instant with a small exchange of words. The excitement of new love has completely disintegrated, and how can that possibly happen? One logical explanation is that it was never totally true from the start. T he exhilaration, the high, which Winston got from having a

Biography of Eva Gouel, Lover of Pablo Picasso

Biography of Eva Gouel, Lover of Pablo Picasso Eva Goeul (1885–December 14, 1915) was Pablo Picassos lover during his Cubist collage period in the early 1910s, one of several influential and romantic partners in Picassos life. She inspired a few of his most famous pieces of art, including Woman with a Guitar, which is also known as Ma Jolie (1912). Fast Facts: Eva Gouel Known For: Muse and mistress of Pablo Picasso, 1911- 1915Born: 1885, Vincennes, FranceParents: Adrian Gouel and Marie-Louise Ghà ©rouzeDied: December 14, 1915, ParisEducation: unknownSpouse(s): noneChildren: none Early Life Eva Gouel was born Eve Gouel  sometime in 1885 to Adrian Gouel and Marie-Louise Ghà ©rouze of Vincennes, France. At some point, she adopted the name Marcelle Humbert and claimed to have been married to a fellow named Humbert, but that doesnt seem to have been the case. Like most of the women Picasso met at this time- indeed like many people in the late Belle Epoque (1871–1914) of Paris- Eva kept her background purposefully mysterious, going by different names which came from various sources. In the correspondence of Picassos friends at the time of their alliance, Eva was considered both sweet and calculating, described as a small spicy girl who looked like a Chinese doll by Italian painter Gino Severini (1893–1966). Meeting Picasso Picasso met Gouel in 1911 at the cafe Ermitage in Paris, when she was going by the name of Marcelle Humbert. She was living with the Jewish-Polish artist Lodwicz Casimir Ladislas Markus (1870–1941), a satirist and minor Cubist better known as Louis Marcoussis. At the time, Picasso had been living with his first muse, Fernande Olivier, since 1904. He was diligently absorbed in studies developing Cubism with painter Georges Braque, and Fernande was hotly jealous of that absorption. Fernande and Picasso often went to the Paris cafes with Marcelle and Louis. On a number of occasions, they were all invited to the writer Gertrude Steins home on the rue de Fleurus, which was a popular place for artists and writers in Paris at the time. Stein and Picasso were close friends, but she and her longtime partner Alice B. Toklas didnt spot the relationship between Picasso and Gouel until February 1912. Fernande and Marcelle became fast friends: Fernande confided her miseries to Marcelle, including her unhappiness with Picasso. In 1911, Fernande began an affair with the young Italian Futurist Ubaldo Oppi (1889–1942). She asked Marcelle to cover for her in order to deceive Picasso, but it was a mistake. Instead, Marcelle began a clandestine affair with Picasso herself. Picassos Eve Picasso began his affair with Marcelle- now going by Eva Gouel at Picassos request- in late 1911. He began adding coded messages into his works, using allegorical imagery like bowls of peaches (thats Eva) and jugs with large spouts (thats Pablo). He also added written phrases like Jaime Eva (I love Eva) and Ma Jolie (My pretty one) as elements of the paintings. The famous Woman with a Guitar, the artists first work in Analytical Cubism, painted between 1911 and 1912, contains Ma Jolie, a nickname he gave to Eva after a popular song at the time. Picasso asked Marcelle Humbert to return to a version of her birth name, in part because he wanted to distinguish this mistress from the wife of his friend and fellow Cubist George Braque, also named Marcelle. He transformed Eve into the more Spanish-sounding Eva, and, to Picassos mind, he was the Adam to her Eve. Fernande On May 18, 1912, Picasso told Fernande that he had discovered her affair with Oppi and was leaving her for Eva. He moved out of her apartment, fired the maid and pulled his financial support of her; Eva moved out of her flat with Louis Marcoussis; and the new pair left Paris for Cà ©ret in southern France. In June of 1912, Picasso wrote friend and art collector Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler that I love [Eva] very much and I will write this in my paintings. Horrified, Fernande left the penniless Oppi and decided to seek out Picasso to rekindle their relationship- or so Picasso feared. Tucked away from the frantic Paris lifestyle in Cà ©ret, close to the Spanish border, Picasso and Eva got wind of Fernandes impending visit. They quickly packed and left instructions not to let anyone know of their whereabouts. They headed for Avignon and then met Braque and his wife in Sorgues later that summer. Death and Legacy In 1913, Picasso and Gouel visited Picassos family in Barcelona, Spain, and talked about marriage. But Picassos father died May 3, 1913, and that same year, Eva either contracted tuberculosis or developed cancer. By 1915, she spent weeks in the hospital. Picasso wrote Gertrude Stein describing his life as hell. Eva died in Paris on December 14, 1915. Picasso would live until 1973 and have dozens of affairs, a handful of which were well-known relationships with women, all of whom affected his art and life. Known Examples of Eva in Picassos Art: Picassos period of  Cubist collages  and papier collà © flourished during his affair with Eva Gouel; he also took two photographs of her. A number of his works during this time are either known or thought to be of Eva, the best-known of which are: Woman with a Guitar (Ma Jolie), 1912.Woman in an Armchair, 1913, Collection Sally Ganz, New YorkSeated Woman (Eva) Wearing a Hat Trimmed with a White Bird, 1915-16, private collection.Eva on Her Deathbed, 1915, pencil drawing, private collection Sources McAuliffe, Mary. Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends through the Great War. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman Littlefield, 2014.Otterstein, Pola. Pablo Picasso And His Women. Daily Art Magazine, November 28, 2017.Richardson, John. A Life of Picasso: the Cubist Rebel, 1907–1916.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, New York.  Tucker, Paul Hayes. Picasso, Photography, and the Development of Cubism. The Art Bulletin 64.2 (1982): 288-99. Williams, Ellen. Picassos Paris: Walking Tours of the Artists Life in the City. New York: The Little Bookroom, 1999.