One needs to be skeptical when fighting a corrupt system. Julia is an expert in faking her loyalty while Winston is exceptional in constructing a good argument which when combined, can create a considerable opposition to the…
1.Compare and contrast Julia and Winston. How does each rebel against the Party, and are these rebellions at all effective?…
The Party changes and rewrites to past to conform to what they say, Winston is among the people who rewrites the past documents and books.…
Within the novel 1984 lie multiple characters, some more complex than others, but one character truly stands out above the rest, Julia. Julia is quite young and mostly obeys the Party’s rules, she usually defies the little rules but claims to be breaking the “big” ones. Julia makes it clear that she hates the Party, yet does not want them to be eradicated? Surely Julia keeps heads spinning, this is certainly true in Winston's case. Winston is quite special himself, at the beginning of 1984, the feelings he felt towards Julia were more or less violent.…
During the whole book Winston and Julia were against the party and they would rebel. Winston hides from the telescreen and writes. He writes about the party and things that happened that he remembers (not actually remembers but gets flashbacks). Julia on the other hand has sexual intercourse with many men and she steals from the party. Both of them are serious crimes during the entire book, and it's kind of like today except you don't get punished as bad. People just tend to look at you bad and call you things like if a boy has sexual intercourse with many women then he's a player and if a girl does it she is a hoe. Stealing on the other hand can lead to serious punishment like going to jail for a couple of years but it's not much to die for…
Back in 1984 there were many events going on like The Cold War, and many economic problems going on. The book 1984 had 3 slogans that were used a lot throughout the book War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength. But, the main point that I will be talking about is Freedom of Slavery because it basically is if people are free to do things and express ideas contrary to party doctrine, everybody is made weak. They are slaves to their own ideas and not strong under one idea for the party. The three main points I will be talking about is when Winston and Julia were both in the cell, room 101 and when Winston and Julia are having to split apart when talking because of the Thought Police.…
The reason for the Party not approving sex was because they felt the need to always have control over everyone. They believed that the sole purpose of sex was to create children in order to help within society. The Party gave children the order to report their parent's instances of Thoughtcrime so that families will not have the ability to threaten their power. Winston enjoyed sex, which is why he broke apart from his anti-sex former wife, Katherine. This habit, however, led Winston to engage in acts with Julia, a prostitute.…
Julia offers Winston something outside of this. She gives him physical and emotional comfort, contrasting what the Party offers. However, their beliefs in the opposition to the Party differ greatly, Winston rebels in hope that future generations will be free of the Party. Julia, being younger has no memories of a time before the Party and therefore can't imagine a time without them in control, she rebels more for simply the sake of doing so. Julia believes that the only way of opposing the party is with secret acts of disobedience or at the most isolated acts of violence because she doesn't believe that anyone or anything can defeat…
The film 1984 based on the book by George Orwell, describes a totalitarian and dystopian regime, complete with too many laws and rules, and a government who surveil your every move. The people live in fear and ignorance, but do not know any better. Do we live in a dystopian society today? What is similar with 1984 and what is not? Is there a government in the world that is more similar than others?…
In 1984, three outwardly misleading characters include Winston, O’Brien, and Mr.Charrington. Since the beginning of the novel, Winston hates the authoritarian rule of the Party and constantly expresses his hatred through suppressed means. For instance, he writes obscenities against the Party in his diary, he secretly has sex with Julia as an act of rebellion, and he attempts to join an organization that opposes the Party. Yet despite all this, he acts loyally when he is being watched; for example, he alters documents wherein he praises the Party for its numerous exploits and achievements. It is fitting that by the end of the novel, he is brainwashed to love the Party: “he had won the victory over himself. He loved big brother” (Orwell, 311). This double contrast highlights the discrepancy present within reality, as in the end, his character is directly at odds with who he initially is in reality. O’Brien is an ambiguous member of the Party who Winston initially comes to trust as a result of a dream where O’Brien says “[w]e shall meet in the place where there is no darkness” (Orwell, 2). This statement itself is contradictory, as Winston initially thinks that O’Brien is referring to the joyful time when the Party is finally overthrown and people are free, but it proves to be a bright room where Winston is endlessly tortured by O’Brien. Winston believes that O’Brien shares his enmity towards the Party, but is proven wrong when O’Brien turns out to be a member of the Thought Police and his subsequent torturer. Thus, O’Brien reinforces the discrepancy between appearance and reality, as his sympathetic character proves to be a trap. Finally, Mr. Charrington, the humble owner of a small shop with a room upstairs that Winston and Julia use…
Furthermore proving this idea is when Winston and Julia are having sex. Winston says this to the readers “No emotion was was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear had hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act,” (Orwell 126) This explain Winston’s idea of sex that it’s simply a superficial way to get revenge against the party not to love. But some people might say Winston truly did love Julia, if so why did Winston betrayal Julia, when facing rats that were attach to him. This is proving the idea that all rebellion could always be…
Throughout Winston’s explanation of his personality, Syme is someone that can be seen as different, and because of that, the government exterminates him. The same happens in our society today, as outcasts are “socially vaporized” through bullying and suicide. Soon after Syme is introduced as a character, Winston states his belief that he will be vaporized saying, “Syme will be vaporized. He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly. The Party does not like such people. One day he will disappear” (53).…
Winston then met a woman named Julia. Winston and Julia became secret lovers. They first met when Julia gave a piece of paper to Winston saying I Love you. Throughout the novel Julia and Winston snuck around and had sex, which was another illegal law that was prohibited unless it was to produce a child. This negative utopia was created to help the people in England but instead made them scared and their whole lives were already set in stone.…
Many significant events occur during Part 2 of 1984, that really steer the story on path toward its unexpected end. The first three chapters of part 2 establish an ardent love affair between Winston and a sensual, dark-haired, fellow rebel Julia. He finds a partner in his quest against the party and is no longer alone. Both Julia and Winston are against the party, but have different attitudes about the future. Julia rebels constantly in her own ways, but does not imagine tearing the government down or even having a successful rebellion. All she wishes is to live as long as possible defying the Party more each day, without getting caught. Winston’s outlook is pessimistic, believing he’ll be arrested and will die eventually. He embraces fatalism but is still hopeful about a better future in Oceania without the Party.…
Winston does not like Syme because he feels his outward intelligence makes him risky to be around because one day it will get him killed. Also Syme seems to be to dedicated to destroying language which is Winston’s trade.…