1984 Quote Analysis

George Orwell once said, “If you can feel staying human is worthwhile, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.” This quote captures Winston and Julia’s brave relationship in 1984 since they started to love each other in a form of rebellion. The Partys have taken away human desires, freedom, and expect them to follow the Party’s orders like slaves. However, Winston and Julia think differently, they are against the Party and society's expectations. The true meaning of real love can be interpreted in a variety of ways, but often the relationships in dystopias are interesting because their love is forbidden. In 1984, George Orwell reveals how Winston and Julia’s relationship shows how relationships with others are disbanded

In 1984, thoughts against the government are dangerous because they can lead to individuality. Moreover, a collaboration of ideas against the government is a threat as it could have the possibility of an increase in rebellious ideas. Therefore, the Party uses different methods of control such as Big Brother, double-think, etc to cause the society to fear monger so the upper classes could maintain control and hierarchical power. For example, the Party implants the concept of ‘thought crime’ into people’s minds, so people can not even properly think for themselves or else they will get vaporized. This causes the characters to suspect others as no one is truly safe if they report it to the Party. When Winston tells Julia what he first thought of her, he explains, “‘I hated the sight of you,” he said. "I wanted to rape you and then murder you afterwards. Two weeks ago, I thought seriously of smashing your head in with a cobblestone. If you really want to know, I imagined you had something to do with the Thought

In fact, when Julia and Winston are discussing how their relationship is, it states, “‘I'm not interested in the next generation, dear. I'm interested in us.’ ‘You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,’ he told her. She thought this brilliantly witty and threw her arms round him in delight” (Orwell 156). At this moment, Julia does not take to offense to what Winston said to her and it shows how she is interested in her own personal desires, and rebelling this way by doing sexual acts and her love for Winston. Winston is interested in overthrowing the government in a revolutionary rebellion. Winston and Julia have different opinions on rebelling againstthe Partys and government, and so Winston saying that she's a rebel waist down is speaking about how she would meet with Winston and do sexual acts instead of having the same idea as Winston trying to join the Brotherhood. Julia thinks the Brotherhood is not as interesting and thinks that it may be something made up by the Partys. Winston sees their love as political. Julia sees it as a rebellious movement for some fragment of freedom. It shows how people like Julia do not really know what true love is as she thinks she loves Winston but he does not really care about her. His relationship with her basically only happened because the government and society are corrupt. After all, Julia’s ideology is more logical as Charrington’s shop was never safe, and Obrien