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How Does Winston Change Throughout The Novel 1984

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In the novel 1984, the author Geoge Orwell emphasizes the theme of rebellion against the government as he writes about the significant changes in the outlier Winston Smith. In this novel, Winston lives in a society where his everyday life is continuously being monitored. Orwell uses Winston's emotional changes to show the evolution of his character throughout the story. Winston's life starts with replete misery and pain, though Orwell allows him a brief time of love and happiness which causes Winston to emotionally change and show his change through rebelling against the government. Winson’s character changes from being inhuman and heartless towards others to being caring and passionate. This change was caused by his connection to Julia. …show more content…

Julia reveals how she slept with several other Party members thrills Winston because it shows how many others are corrupt, and by Winston doing the same he is pulling a political act against the Party. Winston expresses love for Julia because she is the only other person he can be sure of who hates the Party. “The more men you’ve had, the more I love you”(125). Winston reveals since he now knows Julia has had other partners he feels drawn to her because she is like him. Suggesting their relationship is purely based on desire and rebellion to oppose the Party, than actually for one another. This quote is significant because the audience knows the Party advocates all members should be pure. Winson believes himself and Julia to be compatible because they can relate to each other in their beliefs about the Party. As noted by Winston, “No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act” (126). This quote shows an act of rebellion against the Party by Winston because in their world sex is an act of outright rebellion against the Party, which forbids pure lust and pure love. Winston is more so infatuated with Julia because it is seen as a betrayal against the Party. However, Orwell provided several examples of Winston's rebellion against the party once he fell in love with

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Not only does Julia give him an outlet to verbalize his horror at the Party, she also gives him physical stimulation. “Four, five, six, seven times they met [in] June. Winston had dropped his habit of drinking gin at all hours. He seemed to have lost the need for it” (Orwell 150).

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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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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.

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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

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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

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The thought of Julia’s death causes a natural desire in Winston to hold her and care for her. This is essentially what The Party is trying to suppress in their society and is exactly what Winston is gaining from their relationship. Earlier in the novel before they connected, Winston again experienced a nearby bomb drop within a prole neighborhood, and when getting up, he without thought kicked a severed hand into a sewer. The natural care and genuine, outward emotion for a person other than Big Brother is frowned upon in Oceania. Winston's affair with Julia gives him that and makes him realize that.

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Their affair can be seen as a form of escapism, providing solace and intimacy in a world devoid of love. While their actions may not align with traditional notions of heroism, their rebellion against the Party becomes a political act, as Winston himself reflects, "Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act" (Orwell 133). This perspective highlights the subversive nature of their relationship and the potential impact of their personal defiance against the Party's control.

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Deciding that he needs love and physical contact in his life, Winston begins an affair with an inner party member named Julia, who he secretly meets up with and talks about rebellion. Explaining to Julia why the Party frowns upon love marriages and tries to distance people so they can’t have sex, Winston describes that “When you make love you’re using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don’t give a damn for anything. They can’t bear to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour” (Orwell 167).

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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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Julia betrays Winston, however, Winston does not betray Julia. In the end, he cannot hold up against the brainwashing and comes to love Big Brother, the leader of the party. After he is released, he and Julia no longer have feelings for each other. He goes on to live an easy and mindless life. The only thing he has left is a few memories of a time before the Party.

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It’s for this reason that, upon entering into a relationship with Julia, Winston tells her, “the more men you’ve had, the more I love you.” [Orwell, 125] These sex acts which Julia has committed are seen by Winston as a direct stab to the party and as a direct contradiction to their views and values. It’s this rebellion against the party which is the true object of Winston’s affections, however he chooses to believe his feelings are for Julia, because that would mean a second, albeit smaller rebellion was being committed throughout their relationship. However, despite his vision being clouded by the excitement of being able to rebel against the party, Winston recognizes that there was still an impurity to the things they believed they felt about each other. “No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.

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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

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