She serves no purpose other than to fuel Winston’s misdirected anger— and there is a lot of anger to go around. With thoughts of “...[tying] her naked to a stake and [shooting] her full of arrows like Saint Sebastian” (Orwell 20), Julia’s presence succeeds in proving Winston’s own flaws— and apparent instability. The dystopia in which he lives has successfully worn down his rationale, leaving him a spiteful and desperate
Not worrying about her future, Julia strikes out by wanting her own freedom and the good things in life. To her it was, being able to have pleasure with whomever, and eat and wear what she wants. Rebelling for Julia, was just a daily lifestyle. Julia tries to keep Winston young and opperating like her, Getting him to rebel and never give up for his beliefs. When Julia is with Winston, he explains that they are dead for going against the Party.
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’s vivid description of the brutality of the Ministry of Love is a microcosm of the greater cruelty that Big Brother has done to him and many others living in Oceania. However, though all of these acts are inhumane and unjust, Winston is still willing to go through them as long as his love for Julia remains. Through the imagery of the government’s heartless doings, it further develops Winston’s adoration for Julia by showing the lengths he is willing to go through to be human and have feelings for Julia, something that many in Oceania are not able to
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!
The book 1984 shows evidence that both Winston and Julia's previous relationships have all failed. There are a multitude of reasons why their relationship does better than past ones. One of those reasons being that they share similar views of society. People with similar beliefs tend
When he sees her fall down, he helps her, and she gives him a note saying I love you. After he reads the note, his view changes because “at the sight of the words I love you the desire to stay alive had welled up in him, and the taking of minor risks suddenly seemed stupid”(109). His love for the girl, Julia, gives him the need to stay alive throughout the novel. When Julia and Winston meet up, his life changes. All he does is think about her and the next time he can see her.
In 1984, George Orwell created the characters Julia and Winston. Julia has been rebelling the party for a while now and Winston is new to it. His rebellion started when he started writing in his journal which is intellectually different from the people of Oceania then this led to the affair with Julia. Winston and Julia are having this affair for strictly their own enjoyment and pleasure. Julia loved Winston
Winston is excited about the book, whereas Julia is seemingly uninterested; she even falls asleep while Winston reads it. Winston is interested in finding an explanation for the Party’s control and how it all begun. Contrary to that, Julia does
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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
After a cautiously planned meeting initiated by Julia, they started to see each other more often in secret. Over time, a romantic relationship started to develop, not solely based on physical and sexual attraction, but also as a result of their similar views centered around their hatred of the Party. Although both characters complement each other in terms of their views of Big Brother as Party members, their values and approaches to this issue fundamentally conflict in terms of morality and ethics, history, and politics. With regards to morality and ethics, Winston and Julia’s judgment and beliefs greatly differ. Winston, characterized as an idealist, deeply suffers from the existent totalitarian authorities and their full control of everything.
