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1984 Winston And Julia's Relationship

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Love can be a mental or emotional state. It can be interpersonal, familial, romantic, impersonal, or divine. But in Oceania, Big Brother is your family, Big Brother your reason and Big Brother is your God. "He loved Big Brother" (284), and that is the only love allowed. Winston and Julia’s love, therefore, is doubleplusungood for The Party. They share a common desire to rebel against Big Brother, however, are tremendously disparate in their motives. Their relationship is rare and a hopeful attempt at rebellion, but eventually grimly demonstrates the utter extent to which The Party manipulates basic human emotions, like love and passion, into nothing but tools to focus energy toward the party.
Julia, Winston's beloved dark-haired coworker, is a fit, young, and attractive woman. Winston is a middle-aged man with a varicose ulcer in his left …show more content…

From the very start of 1984 he writes in his journal for the “future”. Winston is hopeful in saying, “To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone- to a time when truth exists and cannot be undone...greetings!” (27) This clearly demonstrates Winston’s interest in long-term liberation; he isn’t driven solely by a want for self-autonomy as much as his hope for a complete insurrection of The Party, one that will free the future. He even visits the Prole District and notices, “For the first time in his life he did not despise the proles or think of them merely as an inert force which would one day spring to life and regenerate the world. The proles had stayed human. They had not become hardened inside.” (157) He is distinctly searching for any means of freedom for future generations. “If there is hope, it lies in the proles.” (66) The proles were still human and Winston wanted the future to be human. Winston rebelled to save the

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He begins his illegal love affair with Julia, once again defying the government. However, when he is taken by the police to the ministry of love and punished for this crime, he betrays his lover. Julia and Winston built a trustworthy secret relationship via their mutual hate for the government, but Winston gives it all up when he is threatened in room 101. Big Brother succeeds in pushing Winston to his breaking point, in which he exposes Julia to save himself. He yells to his torturers, “Do it to Julia!

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Winston and Julia’s relationship began with physical attraction, and for Winston, slowly evolved into an emotional attachment. Winston was certain that he loved Julia more than anything in the world, and that he had finally found someone that he could be happy with. Unfortunately, the government eventually manipulates Winston’s love for Julia into a love for the Party and Big Brother. After a tremendous amount of relentless torment, the party eventually makes Winston say “‘Do it to Julia! Not me!

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