George Orwell has created two main characters that have conflicting traits believe in the idea of love in a world where it is forbidden. Although both are secret rebels of the Party and share the same hatred for the Party’s totalitarian power, Julia and Winston display a remarkable number of differences between each other. The differences between them include their morality, their motivation towards the rebellion, and their personalities. Julia represents elements of humanity that Winston does not: survival, instincts, pure sexuality and cunning (1984 By George Orwell Character Analysis Julia). Her actions show the lack of an emotional connection to anyone, even Winston. Any feelings of connection she once shared with Winston do not outweigh the fear of her own mortality. Julia is a true survivor and she is willing to perform any act to carry out her self-centered rebellion. She spent an astonishing amount of time in attending lectures and demonstrations, distributing literature for the Junior Anti-Sex League, preparing banners for Hate Week, making collections for the saving campaign, and such like activities. It paid, she said: it was like camouflage. If you kept the small rules you could break the big ones (Orwell 129). 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. Scores of times she had done; he wished it had been hundreds-thousands. Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope”. (Orwell 125). The sudden surpri... ... middle of paper ... ...r problems. Julia maintains her behaviour and is portrayed as calm and collected. “She became alert and businesslike, put her clothes on, knotted the scarlet sash about her waist, and began arranging the details of the journey home.” (Orwell 129) This allows the reader to see that Julia is organized in her life, unlike Winston whose thoughts are scattered. Due to the extreme differences in the couple’s personalities the reader is left to question whether Julia ever loved Winston. Julia embodies the qualities that Winston wishes he has. The differences in their morality, their motivation towards the rebellion and their personalities are the few reasons why they are drawn to each other, but it is bittersweet as their differences cause their downfall. The two characters created by George Orwell needed each other to create a sanctuary from the heartless world of 1984.
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.
Julia - Julia is an enthusiastic participant in the Two Minutes Hate directed against Emmanuel Goldstein. Winston Smith, a fellow worker in the Ministry of Truth, is both excited and disgusted by Julia and has fantasies of raping and then murdering her. Winston also fears that Julia is a member of the Thought Police.
Winston expresses his feelings towards Julia in such an extraordinary way, “He would flog her to death with a rubber truncheon. He would tie her naked to a stake and shoot her full of arrows.”(Orwell 15). When he is expressing these thoughts, he is actually talking about someone he was actrate to, Winston just had no way of expressing it besides anger. He sees this beautiful young girl, who has made this vow its remain pure and chaste and he just wants to kill her because of how frustrated about it. Although late in the book, who these same two people are alone in a place without worry, everything is different, for example “You are prepared, the two of you to separate and never see one another again. ‘No!’ broke in Julia….’No,’ he said finally.” (Orwell 173) This second moment gives us a definite second opinion about how he may actually feel towards Julia. When they are both in a safe place, and can freely state and do they things they wish to do, Winston does show that he cares for Julia, enough that he does not want to leave her. I believe that these two different feelings show us that even with the body trying to control how people feel, what they do, along with what they think they never get to have complete control of
Orwell utilizes Julia’s character in order to capture the attitude of the oppressed as well. Winston wonders, “Any kind of organized revolt against the Party, which was bound to be a failure, struck her as stupid. The clever thing was to break the rules and stay alive all the same” (Orwell 131). Julia has no interest in overtly fighting the Party because she believes that the rebellion would never work out in her favor. Winston goes on to think:
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
Julia and Winston have things in common like they both have rebellious feelings against the government. They also both hate purity. “I hate purity, I hate goodness. I don’t want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.” (P.125) But with similarities comes differences like age. Where Winston is 39, and Julia is in her 20s. Julia does not care about her past or future and only cares about the present. Winston strives about the past. Julia has a more optimistic view on life and does not care about future or death, on the other hand that is all Winston thinks about.
Orwell’s quote “but you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred” (Orwell 1984) describes the situation between Julia and Winston. I don't believe either of them knew what true love was, they couldn’t see the difference from love and lust. In the book Winston’s feelings towards Julia were always changing. In the beginning he had hated her, wanted to murder her. Towards the middle of the book he began to warm up to her and show feelings towards her. He thought of the feelings as love although I think he truly only felt lust towards Julia. That feeling of lust was not enough for him to take the torture for Julia. He cared more about his well
From the beginning of this story, it is shown how important Julia, or the girl with dark hair, is going to be in the life of Winston Smith. Although his feelings towards her are less than friendly, he explains only one reason for really disliking her. It is stated, “He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and
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.
In defying the law, Winston’s goal was to spread the corruption throughout the novel. Because chastity was orthodoxy in Oceania, and having sexual pleasures was a crime, Winston saw Julia's love as a key force of revolt against the Party (Carpentier). In using Julia as a pawn, Winston used her to spread corruptness. Throughout the novel, Winston is confused with the meaning behind love, to which he didn’t understand what it meant. In this circumstance, Winston idea of love was rebelling against the party. In contrast to how a person would be mortified, Winston encouraged the idea that Julia should have sex with more people. "His heart leapt. Scores of times she had done it; he wished it had been hundreds-thousands. Anything that hinted corruption always filled him with a wild hope" (Orwell 125). To this, Winston was elated to find out that he wasn’t the only one performing acts of rebellion against the party. Although Julia and Winston declared that they loved each other, their betrayal demonstrated how their love wasn’t real, whereas it was just a political act against the
With her lover Winston in captive, she was remotely kept separate from him. Deep within the interior of the Ministry of Love lied the gloomy cell which was delineated through the words of O’Brien as “the place where there is no darkness.” Although gone from the moment, Julia had her influence intact as she would at times become the focus of Winston’s thoughts: “More dimly he thought of Julia. Somewhere or other she was suffering, perhaps far worse than he. She might be screaming with pain at this moment” (p.238). As she was not shown, it was unknown as to whether she was suffering the same agony and dreariness that her lover had been. Serving as his tormentor and perhaps worst nightmare, O’Brien went to every length possible to transform Winston from a hater to lover of Big Brother and all that the Party had stood for originally. As he succeeds in discovering the main source of Winston’s fear which are rats and placing him in Room 101 that was alluded to as the place that contains “the worst thing in the world” (p.283), O’Brien had fortuitously triumphed in forcing Winston to forfeit all the remaining feelings he had left of Julia. Unable to confront the greatest of his fears, Winston in the climactic moment frantically urges “Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia!” (p.286). In regards to the torture scene, Julia was more of a scapegoat to which Winston had access to in order to fend off his agony. Julia had in other words served as an elemental device for which Winston was provided to summon and use as a last
Given that George Orwell’s occupation was a English novelist, journalist, and critic his opinion that totalitarianism is wrong is not surprising because as a kid growing up in India and England he was brought up as a socialist. In 1984, Winston starts to look at his own life and the job that he has to help realize that what he is doing is wrong. He also tries to remember what is was like before Big Brother and he remembers his parents and he doesn’t know how they disappeared. Winston also starts a journal to keep track of all the dreams and thoughts he has. Furthermore in 1984, Julia knows that Big Brother is controlling the public so in her way of rebelling she has sex. One of the rules by Big Brother is that people are not allowed to have kids or any type of relationship unless permitted by the government. Julia knows that there is not much she can do to change the future but as she examines her own life she comes closer and closer to the truth. Winston and Julia looked at their own lives to help figure out that Big Brother was controlling the public. They did this by looking at their everyday lives, like the constant playing propaganda for Big Brother, the forced hate meetings, morning exercises by the telescreen. These all contributed to them checking their chains and finding
Winston wanted to plant seeds of rebellion over generations while Julia would rather have immediate satisfaction. An example of how they are so different is from when Winston is explaining how they will eventually be caught and killed by the thought police, and he noticed “that in a way she realized that she herself was doomed, that sooner or later the Thought Police would catch her and kill her, but with another part of her mind she believed it was somehow possible to construct a secret world in which you could live as you choose"(Orwell). Julia congested the thought of death and prioritized the thought of sneaking around the party forever instead. Winston is the polar opposite, which shows how little they know each other. Another example is from when, Winston mentions how he had concrete evidence of the party’s lies and how he regrets throwing it away. To which Julia replies "I 'm not interested in the next generation, dear. I 'm interested in us"(Orwell). This shows how radically different Julia and Winston are. It is also clear that Julia does not desire change as much as Winston because when he is reading her Goldstein 's book “Julia, a rebel from the waist down only, falls asleep”(Knapp). This displays how little Julia cares about taking an actual stand against Big Brother and the party, unlike Winston. They share two different of views
... Winston and Julia were searching for this freedom. Orwell wants the reader to see the disadvantages and the lack of liberty given to the people in the totalitarian society. He wants the reader to see what's going to happen to the freedom of a common man.