Essay 1984

The main character, Julia is revealed as weak, and incapable of helping her self up as ‘she held out a free hand’ toward Winston

Described as “young”, “free-spirited”, and “practical”, Julia differs from Winston in many ways. She is open about her sexuality, and sleeps with several party members before she meets Winston. Although these acts are frowned upon in the eyes of The Party, Julia doesn’t intend them that way, and tells Winston that it is only to satisfy her own desires. Julia only “..questioned the teachings of the party when they in some way touched upon her life”(153). She was too young to remember a life that contradicted The Party’s teachings, and because she believed all Party propaganda to be lies, Julia had no interest in what those teachings were anyway.

The love between Julia and Winston made both of them reckless in a dangerous situation. The temptation of being together was enough to cause their capture and ruin their relationship. By the end of 1984, both the lives of Julia and Winston were altered negatively due to their carelessness caused by their love.

The character I will be discussing is Julia May Jackson. In the start of the book Julia

self. Here is why: Winston is at constant war with himself. The party might control through influence, but everyone has complete control of their actions, most just choose not to control themselves. Winston goes through this novel without proper self-control. He constantly rebels in high risk, but low reward ways that got him caught. He first made a mistake when he trusted O’Brien based on eye contact. ‘...Winston knew- yes, he knew!...’. When Winston was tortured he betrayed Julia. ‘I have betrayed you’. Winston was the wrong person to rebel in a world without compassion. He didn’t have enough willpower to fight back properly. In short, the entire main character’s personality was that of a sheep, rather than a

Julia, on the other hand, is a child of the Party era. She’s only twenty-six. LIke Winston, she hates the Party and can see through their many techniques. She has a better idea of the Party than Winston does. For instance, Julia thinks that buying the coral paperweight was extremely too risky and not worth dying over.

conscience and means to destroy his brother completely. In 1984, Julia and Winston are having

Julia doesn’t grasp the severity of the Party abolishing history and altering information. She believes that the current war and the existence of Emmanuel were staged by the Party. She also lacks concern for the situation and only cares about her and Winston, whereas Winston wants to be proactive. Part II, Chapter VI O’Brien reaches out to Winston when he compliments his work. He was intrigued by the usage of two obsolete words in one of Winston’s Newspeak articles.

Winston, the protagonist and Party member, hates the Party. He believes it is evil, and when reading Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, many people tend to think the same. The Party is the government in 1984, which has complete control and is perpetually involved in a worldwide war. 20 percent of the population are members of the Party, and work for it, while the other 80 percent are Proles, who as their name suggests are proletarians, and live similarly to our present day lives. The Party is portrayed as evil through the eyes of Winston.

With her grace and carelessness, it seems to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.(33)  Julia is the “catalyst”, the spark that inspires him to start his rebellious journey. He starts to defy the rules because of the support that Julia provides him. This gives Winston the strength to physically fight for freedom instead of keeping his revolt locked in his own mind. With Julia he is not scared to commit any sort of crime.

Winston was a little confused on why Julia wasn't so happy to see him. He ran out of the cafe to stop and talk to her. “Julia!” he yelled, “Why are you following me?” Julia asked.

Julia! I don’t care what you do to her”(286). After all the torture, Winston’s will breaks and he gives up and betrays Julia. Winston finally bends to the parties will, showing himself as weak minded.

Despite Winston's passionate hatred for the Party and his desire to test the limits of the Party's power, his capacity to carry out action against the Party is burdened (i.e. lacking positive freedom) by his intense paranoia and overriding belief that he will ultimately suffer scrutiny and brutal torture for the crimes he

Julia and Winston met through passing through each other, on Winston’s way to the bathroom. Julia gave Winston a note, which has “I love you” (108). written on it. They both go to the Victory Square, and leave for the forest together. The significance about this location is that it reminded Winston of his dream of having an affair with a dark-haired woman. They are both alike because of their rebellious actions. “She had named a place where they could meet after work, four evenings hence” (140). Both individuals participated in anti-party activities. Additionally, they agreed to dislike the government. However, Winston yearned to change their society, while Julia wanted to break the rules herself. The main character was more outward-thinking and empathetic towards his world. Julia believed her life was okay as long as she did not get caught and subsequently killed.

Julia and Winston differ in many ways throughout the book 1984. Julia is a much younger women and knows exactly what she wants. Winston is much older middle aged and unattractive in appearance man. They both have different views against the party. Winston wants Oceania to change how its society is ran and hates what its government is changing it to be now. Also Winston wants to change Oceania to be normal and let the natives of the society have an opinion but instead they are changing everything for example changing words into newspeak which makes the words smaller but is also making the society less intelligent. . On the other hand Julia’s views are much different. She wants to value her