Julia does truly love Winston. Throughout the work of the novel, she is drawn to Winston even though he is around 10-15 years older than she is; this is because she is drawn to his rebellious personality. “It was something in your face. I thought I’d take a chance.” She also shows her love by her carefully planned recklessness; she does the best she can to make sure their relationship stays a secret so that they won’t be caught and separated.
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!
Along with the journal Winston’s relationship with Julia is also a hobby Winston uses to rebel against the party. Because love is severely restricted and has been done in a certain way according to the party, if people start breaking those rules it could lead to other people breaking the rules too. When Winston meets with Julia it can be considered a major blow to the party. Winston explains this saying “Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party.
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
With Julia’s proclamation of love, Winston was able to find the desire and hope to live, “At the sight of the words I love you the desire to stay alive had welled up inside him” (Part 2, Chapter 1, pg. 109). With the discovery of Julia’s love, he believes he has found a form of comradery with someone who not only desires him but also understands him. The affair is only further revered in Winston’s mind as he sees it as a protest against the rigid control of the Party “Their embrace had been a battle, the climax, a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party.
The narrator claims, “In that moment he had loved her far more than he had ever done when they were together and free”(280). After being physically separated from Julia for years, his ‘love’ for her increased dramatically. As their love is simply a manifestation of his desire to go against the party, this signifies Winston’s love with the idea of the Party’s defeat had never been stronger. The narrator then says, “He obeyed the Party, but he still hated the Party,”(280) and plans his final act of thoughtcrime before his death. Winston believed that he could outsmart the Party with his emotions.
Julia on the other hand is both young and healthy. Julia likes Winston because he opposes the party in his mind, showing how she is not physically attracted to Winston (even though they have sex most of the time), but she is attracted to the idea of having sex with someone who shares the same hate for the party as her, and the rebellion behind it. This rebellion is what feeds their relationship in the beginning. The two don’t match intellectually, showing Winston’s maturity in years over her many times as they
As the novel progresses Winston's desire of a revolution and hatred of the government is altered and dwarfed by love for Julia. “I want to truly feel what it means to be human, to be loved and love someone. To grow old with them and share my life with them” (Orwell 128). Winston being a single middle aged man who hasn’t truly felt a feeling like this, longs for a special someone to call his own and diverts his attention towards Julia. She is the only thing that matters to him, and Winston desires to spend the rest of his life with her.
Later on, they see each other and Julia has physically and mentally changed tremendously. She does not feel attracted to Winston anymore and does not want him to touch her. At the end of the novel, Julia does not love Winston
This begs the question of whether he truly had feelings for Julia, or if she was simply a gateway to this newfound way of living. Winston was not in love with Julia, but instead with the opportunities of escape from reality and freedom from the Party that
Love is many things. Love is respect. Love is vulnerability. Love is commitment. However, In 1984 by George Orwell, love is rebellion.
Though written in 1949, the controversial political ideology discussed in George Orwell’s novel, 1984, is standing the test of time by proving relevant to a plethora of issues in modern society, especially in the United States with the election of Donald Trump, NPR cited that the novel sales were up around “10,000 percent” (NPR). Several of these themes include the issues of the makeup of a totalitarian state, as seen in governance of the Party, mass surveillance, through Telescreens and Though Police, and uniform thought, evident with 2+2=5. While all of these themes are present in modern day reality, one of the biggests overlaps between the novel and reality is the presences and role of whistleblowers. In 1984, we are introduced to the character Emmanuel Goldstein, who serves as a whistleblower against the Party and Big Brother. Similarly, in 2013, Americans became aware of various NSA
Love was not acceptable. Most of the marriages ended where partners left each other, which is what the party wanted "in case there were no children." (57) Winston was married, he could still have been married but he did not know where his wife could be and "so far as he knew, his wife was not dead. " The way Winston talked about his wife, it showed that he did not care to find out whether his wife is alive or dead. The detachment towards his own marriage here is a marker of the way that the Party has changed what marriage implies.
Once Julia has given Winston the note that says ‘I love you’ on it, they begin meeting each other in private, but Winston is not sexually attracted to Julia like she is to him; “Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow against the part. It was a political act” (Orwell, 104). In 1984 relationships are forbidden, unless to only reproduce children for the party, making Winston and Julia’s relationship extremely
Winston knows Julia will have a sexual relationship with him. Thus giving Julia the possession of the sexual possibilities Winston desires. Once Winston and Julia accumulate a relationship, they ultimately get caught and sent to the Ministry of Love, where Winston is tortured into ‘another’ Winston. Julia is what Winston wants; Julia is the reason Winston committed the crime and is sent to room
