Without emotions and liberty humanity will cease and people will become mindless animals. Our ability to think and feel is what humanity is and without that we revert back to animalistic instincts. In the type of government that Orwell portrays in 1984 we witness what will happen to the world when a persons individuality and freedoms are taken away.
Throughout the book, Winston rebels against the Party and attempts to keep his individuality. His love affair with Julia is one example of how they both refuse to follow the party and maintain a piece of who they are and the emotions and desires they possess. It also allows the reader to see how the Party truly does destroy every last hope of feelings like love or devotion. When Winston finally cracks and begs the Party to hurt Julia instead of him it shows how the Party has complete control over him and Winston no longer has any sense of who he is.
Being able to make decisions and have feelings is what makes us human. Having the freedom to think and make decisions based on our emotions is what sets us apart from ordinary animals. When you take these elements away we become animalistic. We'd only think of our own basic needs and nothing else; humanity would no longer exist.
Orwell suggests that when restrictions are put in place that prevent us from being human, all of humanity will die. People need and want to be loved and express their emotions and when that disappears we're nothing more than an average animal. We are an advanced species and when you take away our greatest assets we become nothing more than a common mammal; our humanity is gone.
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