1984 By Henry David Thoreau: Character Analysis

“Things do not change; we change,” Henry David Thoreau. In our country, people are ever changing. We change from learning new ideas, information, and changing perspective as we grow. But imagine if people were not allowed to change. There would be no new ideas or information allowed to be learned. Everyone would but stuck in the same mind set their whole life. That is the reality many faces still to this day and is the reality. Throughout the novel 1984 by George Orwell, the main character, Winston, changes from being unaccepting of the tyrannical government to accepting of the oppressive Party due to the influence of his mistress, Julia.
In the beginning of the book, it describes Winston as a resident of Oceania. It is a country depressed due to the overwhelming government control, and is located in present day

When he first sees her, he is suspicious and believes she is a spy working for the Thought Police. However, when Julia gives him a note telling him she loves him, his suspicion quickly turns to mixed emotions, and then turns into short conversations. After a short while, the two of them sneak off into an isolated area and proceed to indulge in sex. In the book “Nineteen Eighty-Four” it states that “Sex, then, even as they delighted in it, is to be savored not to love or lust, but rather as one more blow against Big Brother” (George Orwell). As this shows, as a direct result of interacting with Julia, Winston becomes more daring. Had he never encounter her, Winston would have just kept ranting in his journal at night before he went to bed. In addition, this evidence shows how from the start, the main purpose of the relationship between Winston and Julia was not to love, but rather to rebel against the government. By doing this, they have now committed the second level of rebellion. Since the two of them have shown that they love something more than Big Brother, they have committed an act of