1984 Winston And Julia Compare And Contrast

How would you revolt in a society built upon order? Would you? In George Orwell’s 1984, he creates a couple bound by only their desire for rebellion. Julia and Winston together feel as though they are real human beings, with emotions and impulses, exactly what the Party wishes to squander. Although Winston and Julia’s love is based on their shared dislike of the Party, their reasons for rebelling vary greatly from each other. Winston is far more cautious around his thoughts and the Party, concerned with the future generations and he consciously wants to rebel. Whereas Julia is quite free-spirited, only concerned about herself and the present and does not rebel for any specific reasons. Firstly, Winston and Julia differ in their temperaments

Julia, the present and Winston, the past and future. The couple is united in their stance against the Party, but by way of contrast, are focused on entirely different time periods. Julia tells Winston that she doesn’t care for the future or even trying to to make a difference in the matter of the future, unless it is a front for the Party or themselves alone. Considering this, Winston is the exact opposite. He desires to change the Party and their lies, majorly due in part to his job in the Records Department. At his job, he must forge previous newspaper articles, posters and any other media that is at all different from the present day. Winston hates this job more than anything, and he tries to keep track of all of the things that the Party has forged and changed throughout the course of ‘history’. On the other hand, Julia at no time complains about her job, forgeries she knows are being committed or trying to inspire others to rebel. “I’m not interested in the next generation, dear. I’m interested in us” (Orwell 129). Sometimes he talked to her of Records Department and the impudent forgeries he committed there. Such things did not appear to horrify her (Orwell 129). When Winston speaks to Julia about wanting to keep a forged newspaper to pass on to the younger generation in the hopes of exciting a rebellion, she tells him she doesn’t care about that. Julia is very focused on the present, not the

Winston desires and feels the need to rebel, he deeply despises the Party. Conversely, Julia does not have any concrete reasons or want to rebel, except for the fact that she finds it to be an amusing activity. Winston wonders to himself how many young people think of rebellion, but are so conditioned to believe that they cannot even try to rebel that they do not try. Julia herself is an outlier, by committing her crimes with Inner Party members, but would never think of truly starting a rebellion. “He wondered vaguely how many others like her there might be in the younger generation people...knowing nothing else, accepting the Party as something unalterable, like the sky, not rebelling against its authority but simply evading it, as a rabbit dodges a dog” (Orwell 109). Winston compares the younger generation as wanting to rebel, but believing that it cannot be changed so they evade it like prey and predator. Winston makes a snarky remark to Julia about how she is not a ‘full rebel’ like himself. “You’re only a rebel from the waist down.” (Orwell 129). Julia loves this, simply because it is so witty, and she agrees with him that she is not a complete rebel, as there is no sense in it anyways, just danger. Winston also asks Julia ““You like doing this?” to which she replies“I adore it”” (Orwell 105), showing that she really does only rebel for fun. Winston and Julia