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Examples Of Heroism In 1984

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Villains or heroes, protagonist or antagonist; Julia, O’Brien, Winston, and Mr. Charrington could be categorized in either role in this book. It depends on your view, do you believe in the Utopian world that the Inner Party was controlling and developing or are you against the idea of the Thought Police where you’re every word and thought could be controlled and monitored? I will explain who are the heroes and villains from my perspective. Winston Smith is more of a hero then a villain in my opinion. Winston was one of the only ones who tried to overthrow the corrupt party. He was getting tired of the telescreen, people getting vaporized, and the Thought Police. Winston sought the truth and wondered how time was back in the old days, was it better or worse? Winston had always had rebellious thoughts against the Party for listening to people’s …show more content…

She was brave enough to fake a fall and pass a note to Winston which he could have then used to turn her into the Thought Police (p. 88-89). It was also very heroic when she spoke out loud to Winston on her feelings concerning the Party and why she hated Big Brother. She looked at Winston and knew he did not belong to them, which was the Party and more important the Inner Party who ruthlessly controlled everyone’s lives (p. 102). Julia was against the Party and wanted it destroyed. One could also note that Julia was more interested in rebelling against the Party in secret to have her affair with Winston. Both Julia and Winston in their meeting with O’Brien, who they thought was on their side, agreed to do whatever it takes, even if it involves the killing or harming of innocent people. Though both Julia and Winston eventually got caught and were tortured to the point of betraying one another, they could hold on to their earlier discussion that upon capture they would knowingly betray each other to save themselves but the love they had would be

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Winston and Julia both rebelled against the Party and the rules of their society. Winston rebelled for the reason that he would defeat the Party and soon belong to the Brotherhood. His logic was more intellectual about how his plan would be accomplished. While Julia's logic on rebelling against the Party was quite different. She only thought of herself and in the moment.

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He is not the person he was before and he has succumbed to the threats of Big Brother. He says “two and two make five” and he believes it to be true, just as the government wants. He is troubled with false memories and does not know what is true and what is told to be true by Big Brother. The party had the ability to “frighten you out of your beliefs, persuading you, almost, to deny the evidence of your senses, (1,7)” and this is just what they did to Winston. Now, he has been trained to only think thoughts that align with the party’s goals, so he loses his sense of rebellion and individuality.

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Julia is a mysterious and vital character in the novel. Julia is the person who shapes Winston into a rebellion. Initially, Winston did not trust Julia because he assumed that she was a member of the Thought Police. “There was no doubting any longer that the girl was spying on him.

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Julia took full advantage of her position as a ring-leader in the community and her intimacies with the members, and used the connections to benefit her own good. Just because Julia played the part of the perfect citizen, doesn’t mean that she necessarily was. She revealed to Winston that she was just doing it for the cameras, and in reality hated the government just as much as him. Though, unlike Winston, she knew that this pretending would benefit her more than retaliation would ever. Winston didn’t understand this, and instead of becoming a lover of Big Brother like Julia and reaping the benefits,

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Both of them are rebellious individuals, who despise the Party. This is one of their biggest similarities, but their thoughts and methods are drastically different. Whereas Winston is a bit cowardly and inexperienced in being rebellious, Julia keeps up her act of being a good person loving the Party while doing all kinds of "forbidden" acts of rebellion. Their backgrounds give them different perspectives. Winston was alive before the Party took over, but Julia had grown with the Party being the dominant power and thus she doesn't really care about the past in the way Winston does.

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Winston has an imaginative mind and later in the book he claims that the “power that would one day overturn the world” lies “in the proles”. He feels that the fate of the Party would lie in their hands and “when their time came, the world they constructed would not be just as alien to him” since “at the least it would be a world of sanity” (220). Winston expresses one of his heroic qualities through displaying his vision for the good of

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Winston and Julia sticking together is the most important thing because it shows who they are. They are in love with each other and they are the only thing either of them has going for them because of the life they live. If they did betray each other then they both would go down for the crimes they committed and so does anyone else they know that knows about there crimes. Not confessing is also important because it shows that they are human and care for each other. "If you feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any results whatever, you've beaten them" (Orwell 166).

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They meet and O’Brien says that they “believe that there is some kind of conspiracy, some kind of secret organization working against the Party, and that [Winston and Julia] are involved in it. [They] want to join it and work for it. [They] are enemies of the Party. [They] are thought-criminals…If you want [them] to incriminate [themselves] in any way, [they] are ready” (170). This meeting sets the basis for the following scenes and plays a role in the novel’s outcome, and is a major role in the developing of the rest of the story and

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After meeting her, Winston realizes that he rebels because it is the only way to gain freedom. “The sexual act, successfully preformed, was rebellion. Desire was a thought crime” (Orwell, 68). In a way, Julia gives him the strength he needs to continue to fight for freedom. “I have not betrayed Julia” (Orwell, 273.)

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Julia sees her act of sexuality, as a rebellion against the party. As the party tries to manipulate and control all aspects of life, Julia knows that by using her sexuality, she can demonstrate her non- conformity to party rules. “I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don’t want any virtue to exsit anywhere I want everyone to corrupt the rules.” ( Page

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He went back to his old ways of only looking out for himself. The qualities of a typical hero once again vanished. Winston was tortured so much that he ratted out Julia and confessed everything. He even said he’d rather Julia be tortured and die than himself. He had betrayed her, and he had betrayed himself.

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(Orwell 233). Then a little bit later Winston asked “Who denounced you?” then Parsons said “It was my little daughter” (Orwell 233). This shows how The Party is taking advantage over people so they can have power to do what they want. When Julia and Winston were captured by O’Brien,who was a spy for the Party, he put them in separate rooms, questioned and tortured Winston so he would give up Julia and confess.

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Governmental oppression continues to be represented through the texts 1984 and Brazil through the relationships of the characters. In 1984, for quite some time Winston Smith believed Julia was apart of the anti-sex party and that she was of the many brainwashed citizens. Winston’s first time seeing Julia out of the office he sees her wondering around in the proletarian area and he immediately believes she has followed him and she must be part of the thought police, he also considers bashing her head in with a brick but immediately dismisses this idea and rushes home; “He could keep on her track till they were in some quiet place, and then smash her skull in with a cobblestone” (Orwell, 84). This idea that Winston even thought to bash someones head in because he may be turned in to the police represents the oppression the law has on all its citizens.

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Julia wasn’t much interested in reading, and Winston was surprised to discover that “the difference between truth and falsehood did not seem important to” (193) Julia. While Winston was greatly concerned about the party’s manipulation of truth, Julia was more interested in freedom of individuality. The clever thing was to break the rules and stay alive, whether it was a love affair, swearing, wearing makeup or obtaining luxuries on the black market. She took great pride in her ability to bring real sugar, real milk, and real coffee to her meetings with Winston (177). Julia’s desires to bring these prohibited items to their meetings, as well as her disinterest in exposing the part indicate that she rebels simply to undermine the party in her own small ways and gain individual freedom.

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They both get a thrill out of acting traitorous. However, while they have that in common along with a mutual desire for each other, they have several differences. Winston dreams of the days before Big Brother and possess the desire to join the Brotherhood and bring down Big Brother. Julia, on the other hand, does not really understand the full concept of what she is rebelling against, and in fact, she does not really even care. Julia is younger than Winston and does not remember the time before the revolution while Winston can.

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