In the book 1984 by George Orwell, many different entities and ideas surrounded Winston Smith. The main character was shown as having a strong dislike for the Party and Big Brother, yet he worked in the Ministry of Truth. While he edited documents and ‘changed history’, he knew about the lies that the Party forced on the citizens of Oceania. Winston had encounters with many, who all had different views of the Party. These people influenced him and expressed to him how the Party can transform one’s mind into something it should not be. In 1984, Katharine and Julia both influenced Winston by showing how the Party is able to manipulate minds, by showing dislike for the Party, and causing the Party to react towards relationships they disapprove of. Within the story, Winston explains his relationship with Katharine as being a mutual togetherness. Katharine was unable to produce children, which is the only thing the Party wanted from a couple. In the novel …show more content…
When Winston first met Julia, he believed that she was fully into the Party because of her Anti-Sex League sash. On page 156 in the story, Winston states that Julia is “only a rebel from the waist downwards.” Julia had been with many other, older men before, which was her way of expressing her disliking of the Party. It was hard to tell from appearance of what Julia’s thoughts and gestures were. She wore the Anti-Sex League sash permanently and Winston thought she was fully for it, yet she actually disobeyed the Party’s rules many times. Winston found this motive attractive, for he knew he was not the only one against the Party. Julia was able to detect that Winston was anti-party, even though Winston thought he covered his thoughts well. Julia influenced Winston that not everyone who seems like they are with the Party’s ideals actually are. She explained to him that there are many small rules you can follow that allows you to break bigger
Julia instructs Winston how to return to London. The two arranged meetings where and when they would meet again. Julia reveals that she is not interested in the revolt. Although, she is a personal rebel. Winston reveals information to Julia about his wife Katherine which he decided weather to not killer her or not. Winston returned to Mr. Charrington’s offer: he had rented the room above his shop in order to spend some private time with Julia. Winston reveals his fear of rats.
Winston’s method of resistance is actually taking action and doing something to solve Oceania’s problem with Big Brother’s complete control. Winston does not like that the Party can just tell you that 2+2=5 and you would actually believe it, because that means that the Party has complete influence over you, and can make you change your ideas about basic facts and truths. “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” In other words, Freedom is the ability to know unquestionable truths, and if you have that, you can have more freedom, but if your basic knowledge is taken away, then your freedom is doomed. Winston looks for solutions, while Julia just tries to wait it out and only cares about herself. Winston at one point gets fed up with this attitude and even tells Julia that she is only a rebel from the waist down, which Julia takes as a compliment, “She thought this brilliantly witty and flung her arms round him in delight.” Julia and Winston’s perspective on resisting the party are similar at first but end up being completely different. Winston’s perspective is more compelling because his ideas can actually make an impact and change society, whereas Julia’s rebellion is
She presents herself as a passionate Party follower, but underneath the surface she embodies the spirit of a bird; her desires are to be free and enjoy life. Winston is the complete opposite; he is consciously determined to differentiate fact and fiction. This is shown when Winston learns about Julia’s sexual history. His heart leapt out of his heart. Scores of times she had done; he wished it had been hundreds-thousands.
Prior to meeting Julia, Winston frets constantly about life and essentially has nothing to look forward to. Julia’s arrival into his life not only gives him
Winston felt like sex was a rebellion. He is drawn to his lover Julia because
Winston will talk to Julia about things on his mind, but she will dismiss them by saying she is not interested or by completely ignoring him, but Winston doesn’t seem to mind. When thinking about the relationship between them, it seems that Winston has more feelings for Julia does. She’s only interested in the physical attraction and what that brings about. They speak of having a life together, but for Julia the feelings are stale and only
As Winston states, talking about his affair with Julia: “But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act” (126). Winston is unique, and was able to create a relationship with Julia. However, although it might last for a while, at some point it will fall and they will be caught by the party. None but a few party members partake in sexual actions, besides for reproduction, showing how effective the party has been at making their citizens ignorant. The Inner party’s propaganda campaigns have prevented their members from forming meaningful relationships, thus allowing the party to have complete control. The party distracts the general public by preying on their fear, which prevents them from creating resistance against the party. The Outer party is incapable of opposing the Inner party, as they allowed the rise of the Inner party, and are now forced to turn a blind eye, out of fear. Winston also thinks: “If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the party ever be generated”(69). The proles only worry about their simple life, and not their government. As Winston stated, the proles are the only ones who have the power to rebel and destroy the party. By ignoring the actions of the party, they help keep the Inner Party in power, and keep themselves enslaved. Since both the proles and the Outer party are incapable of opposing the Inner party’s fear tactics, they are left to mellow in ignorant bliss, while the
To start off, Orwell's sole inclusion of women who base their relationships with men exclusively on sex demonstrates Orwell's negative beliefs about women. Despite Julia's claims to love Winston, their relationship is not about “the love of one person, but the animal instinct”(132). Julia has been in similar relationships to her and Winston's “hundreds of times”(131), relationships that look only at the sexual side and never at the emotional. She refuses all of Winston's attempts to expand their relationship, having “a disconcerting habit of falling asleep”(163) whenever he persists in talking. And although Winston cares for Julia more than he cares for Katharine, Katharine also bases her relationship with Winston completely on sex. When Winston reflects on their time together, he thinks, “he could have borne living with her if it had been agreed that they remain celibate... It ...
George Orwell creates a dark, depressing and pessimistic world where the government has full control over the masses in the novel 1984. The protagonist, Winston, is low-level Party member who has grown to resent the society that he lives in. Orwell portrays him as a individual that begins to lose his sanity due to the constrictions of society. There are only two possible outcomes, either he becomes more effectively assimilated or he brings about the change he desires. Winston starts a journey towards his own self-destruction. His first defiant act is the diary where he writes “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER.” But he goes further by having an affair with Julia, another party member, renting a room over Mr. Carrington’s antique shop where Winston conducts this affair with Julia, and by following O’Brien who claims to have connections with the Brotherhood, the anti-Party movement led my Emmanuel Goldstein. Winston and Julia are both eventually arrested by the Thought Police when Mr. Carrington turns out to be a undercover officer. They both eventually betray each other when O’Brien conducts torture upon them at the Ministry of Love. Orwell conveys the limitations of the individual when it comes to doing something monumental like overthrowing the established hierarchy which is seen through the futility of Winston Smith’s actions that end with his failure instead of the end of Big Brother. Winston’s goal of liberating himself turns out to be hopeless when the people he trusted end up betraying him and how he was arbitrarily manipulated. It can be perceived that Winston was in fact concerned more about his own sanity and physical well-being because he gives into Big Brother after he is tortured and becomes content to live in the society he hated so much. Winston witnesses the weakness within the prole community because of their inability to understand the Party’s workings but he himself embodies weakness by sabotaging himself by associating with all the wrong people and by simply falling into the arms of Big Brother. Orwell created a world where there is no use but to assimilate from Winston’s perspective making his struggle utterly hopeless.
He is always nervous about being caught by the Thought Police, while Julia feels as though she is too smart for the Thought Police to catch her committing thoughtcrime. “...his varicose ulcer was throbbing. This was the second time in three weeks that he had missed an evening at the community center. A rash act, since you could be certain that the number of your attendance at the center was carefully checked” (Orwell 81). Whenever Winston is sure that he is committing thoughtcrime, his varicose ulcer starts to throb and itch because his body is subconsciously telling him to do the right thing so that he does not get caught. Julia, on the other hand, believes she is too involved with Party activities to even be suspected of thoughtcrime. “‘Where did you get this stuff?’ he [Winston] said. ‘Black market’, she said indifferently. ‘I’m good at games. I was a troop leader in the spies. I do voluntary work for three evenings a week for the Junior Anti-Sex League’” (Orwell 121). Since Julia was and still is highly involved in Party activities that make her seem innocent, she thinks that she is in the clear and can get away with mostly anything. These differing relationships with The Party create a partition between these two characters because one will always either hold the other back or push the other too
When O’Brien shows Winston his deteriorating self and tries to persuade Winston into believing that he did it to himself, Winstons fights back, recalling that there is only one thing he did not betray, “ I have not betrayed Julia…. Had not stopped loving her”(286-287). The only way for the Party to gain full control is for them to gain Winston’s emotional behavior and thinking since that is what Winston proves to hold on to since he has yet to betray Julia. Julia is proven to be the greatest contributor to Winston’s healing. When Winston is in room 101, he has gone through every torment and still believes he has not betrayed Julia since he still loves her. As Winston is put to the final test, rats, he cannot withstand the rats and forfeits his emotions stating, “ Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her!” (300). Winston is deemed saved and released back into society. The love that Winston had for Julia in a way blinded him so that he continued to have uniqueness compared to the rest of the environment. When he gave up on her, he became a “sane” person
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
There are many characters in the novel 1984. These characters all rebel in separate and distinctive ways from each other. In George Owell’s not so sanguine vision of the year 1984 from his standpoint in 1949, he tells of a dreary future of what the world was becoming. In this future, no one has the right to anything, including free speech, freedom of press or even freedom of thought. Even the details like the history of the known world are changed by a corrupt and ever growing political party, which is managed and run by un-emotional and odious officials. From Julia, who rebels by purely simple, sexual acts, to Winston, who dreams to overthrow the party; all the characters have their own personal way of dealing with the oppression.
George Orwell uses Winston to represent truth in a deceptive world in his novel 1984. In Oceania, Big Brother is the omnipotent and all powerful leader. Everything the government dictates is unquestionably true, regardless of prior knowledge. Even thinking of ideas that go against Big Brother’s regime, or thoughtcrime, is punishable by death. Winston serves as the dystopian hero, longing for freedom and change. Orwell uses Winston to emphasize the importance of individual freedoms, as they give us the ability to fulfillingly lead our respective lives.
In in the book 1984 by George Orwell, the party is symbolized by the idea of Big Brother, who constantly is watching at all the activities of the people of Oceania. Everyone is controlled by the party, but no one is happy about it and hates the party. In search for a place for a room without telegram, Winston finds a room above Mr. Charrington’s shop. Winston decides to rent this room since there is no one watching him. Orwell developed a thought of freedom and privacy that Winston has in the room but later changed Winston’s life.