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Examples Of Julia In George Orwell's '1984'

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In the book 1984, George Orwell left various clues to why Julia and Winston no longer love each other after what happened in the Ministry of Love. Julia and Winston no longer love each other due to when they both confessed to O’Brien that the only thing in world that they both wouldn’t give up was each other, when Julia threw looks of contempt and hate to Winston and when Julia admitted that, after what happens at the Ministry of Love, people don’t feel the same, For instance, the Ministry of Love resulted in many horrible things including causing Julia to view Winston with contempt and hatred several times in their meeting. Orwell states, “She looked directly at Winston for the first time. It was only a momentary glance, filled of contempt …show more content…

The author wrote, “All you care about is yourself . . . and after that you don’t feel the same toward the other person any longer” (Orwell 240). This quote elaborates that the feeling that they had before for each other before the Ministry of Love was destroyed and altered like the history books in 1984. It is implied in the quote that Julia no longer loved or was capable of loving Winston when she said specifically “you don't feel the same toward the other person any longer”. A example of “only caring about yourself” was when Julia and Winston were sent to room 101 where there both subjected to their biggest fears. The narrator states, “But he had suddenly understood that in the whole world there was just ONE person whom he can transfer his punishment …. and he was shouting frantically, over and over. “Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her…”. In other words, Winston knew in the back of his mind why he was in room 101 and what he had to do in order to stop the pain and protect himself which connects with the quote from Julia mentioned above about only worrying about yourself in the Ministry of Love. The reason why the party subjected Winston and Julia to exercises like that was to make each of them have no mental capacity to love each other since they would only care about self

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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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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 fails to stay true to his belief of staying loyal to Julia going against how a hero is someone who is idealized for being moral. As part of the Party’s plan to reintegrate those who have rebelled against them, the final step is going to room 101 that holds “the worst thing in the world” (283). Winston and Julia have fail to betray each other throughout their obscure time in the Ministry of Love until one of Winston’s greatest fears, rats are literally brought to the table. Winston fears rats more than anything and he did not want to interact with them in any negative way causing him to yell out “'Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia!

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Betraying Winston means giving in to Big Brother and loving Big Brother more than Winston. Julia admits that she genuinely wanted the pain to be for Winston, so that it would stop for her. Her soul is nonexistent after being released from the prison, and she feels no emotion or love for Winston, only love for Big Brother. This crumpled her soul, and forced a Pro-Party mentality into an unwilling body. After making certain decisions against her society, she falls, and so does Lady Macbeth.

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The Curious Relationship Between Julia and Winston The government of Oceania in George Orwell’s 1984 stresses strict restrictions on love. The Party claims that relationships of love diverge focus from Big Brother. Yet in this society,there are rebels that still forge relationships despite the pressures placed on them to prevent love.

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Winston eventually meets a woman named Julia who he is both enamored and repulsed by. His feelings of lust come from her striking and unusual beauty, while the feelings of disgust stem from the abolition of sex within Oceania.

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