Julia's Nineteen Eighty-Four

While some characters are considered minor, their impact is anything but unimportant. It tends to be the people who attain the least recognition that have the biggest effect overall. This is why authors, like Orwell, are able to use characters like O’Brien and Charrington to move the character development along.. In the novel, 1984 by George Orwell, Julia, who appears to have selfish beliefs, shifts her views of freedom after Charting gives her a safe space, and O’Brien shifts her view on love after he tortures her.

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

The effort the two lovers must put in to see each other is unthinkable, as they must avoid telescreens and microphones almost everywhere they turn. When Mr. Charrington allows them to use his room without a telescreen, they take full advantage of it. Seeing as Winston is still married to his wife and sexual acts are illegal, Julia and Winston defy the Party in more ways than one. Winston has changed from full obedience to the Party to defying it due to his outsized amount of hatred for Big Brother. Julia and Winston engage in negative talk about the Party, which puts them subject to arrest.

Having a passionate relationship is no longer a foreign concept to Winston, he now loathes it. When having a conversation with Julia he thinks, “. With Julia, everything came back to her own sexuality." As soon as this was touched upon in any way she was capable of great acuteness.”. Winston does, in fact, enjoy the sex, but after seeing Julia for months at this point, he realizes their differences. Julia is focused on having a sexual relationship with people, but not committing anything that would affect the integrity of the party’s rule. When Winston thinks, “ With Julia, everything came back to her own sexuality”, it is showing the signs of a disconnect. While the love for Julia has not changed in this passage, his quest for anti-Big brother actions is not fully satisfied. The physical relations between Julia and Winston only scratches the surface on what Winston desires.

Through the beginning sections of the novel, the severity of the consequences from Julia and Winston’s affair become quite prominent after the realization that they are taking part in one of the ultimate acts of defiance to Big Brother. Because Julia and Winston are risking a lot to be with one another, the secrecy of their relationship is a key factor in the suspense that builds towards the climax of the story. The suspense greatly affects the plot of the story by

Julia is first shown as a sexless figure since she is a member of the Anti-Sex League. When Winston first sees Julia, he does not know her name. He only knows that she works in the Fiction Department. Winston “disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy” (10). This demonstrates that at the beginning of the novel, he does not like Julia. He thinks that she is dangerous, and wants to get him in trouble. He thinks that she is a member of the thought police and that she will turn him in. This proves the assumptions of men and how Winston just assumes that Julia is dangerous. According to Meia, a writer for Medium, “Winston started out hating Julia simply because he wanted to have sex with her. In knowing, or assuming, that that would never happen, Winston finds himself cheated out of something that he feels he ought to have” (Meia). Winston does not like Julia because he feels like she will get him in trouble, but he has an attraction toward her. With her Anti-sex League sash, he thinks that she will follow the rules of the Party. He feels like if he would have sex with the young and beautiful Julia without getting caught, then that would be the ultimate rebel and they will defeat Big Brother. Winston thinks that all women in Oceania are all complete followers of the Party and will not disobey the laws. However, Julia's appearance deceives Winston, and he finds out that she is unorthodox and has the same intention as he

Even before Winston meets Julia, he had dreams about her. Orwell wrote, “ What overwhelmed him in that instant was admiration for the gesture with which she had thrown her clothes aside… as though Big Brother and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single movement”(27). Even dreaming about such thing can get Winston killed. Later on in the book, the dream becomes a reality. Winston meets Julia during book two and they soon start to have a relationship. Having a relationship with someone that is not their spouse, is a crime. Having sex for reasons other than just reproducing, is also a crime. On page 111, Winston and Julia have sex for the first time. He loved the feeling of corruption and wrongness, he says, “I hate purity, I hate goodness. I don’t want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones”(Orwell 111). Winston gets tired of living in a society where acting wrong is prohibited so, he wants to be the exact opposite. Thats why he says that he loves the feeling of

Julia rebels over the control the Party has over her life. Some of her rebellion takes the form of relationships with men, which Winston doesn't know about. Julia rebels against Big Brother for freedom and being able to love whomever you want. Julia enjoys doing her sexual activities that she does and she refuses to let the Party tell her otherwise. She also rejects the mental controls the Party tries to do.

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.

Julia is the epitome of everything that Winston loathes; pretty young women, for it makes him think of his own wife and emphasizes his jealousy. However we eventually find out that she shares Winston’s ideals about the hatred of Big Brother, and she is described as a “sexual rebel”, and had sex with various Party members, but saves herself from being caught by the Thought Police by wearing the red sash of the Anti-Sex League. Julia deceives almost everyone in this dystopian society, by posing as an innocent young woman, but secretly rebelling and hating the Party. Julia’s deceiving nature is indicated through her “ripping off the scarlet sash of the Junior Anti-Sex League, and flinging it onto a nearby bough.” The choice of diction used by Orwell emphasizes both Julia’s reckless nature and her dislike for the party; “flinging” the sash indicates to the audience that she does not actually believe in the Junior Anti-Sex League; that is was indeed a cover to protect herself from being caught, and the word “scarlet” to describe the color of the sash is perhaps even a warning or a foreshadowing that something bad will happen in the future with Winston and Julia regarding the validity of Julia’s membership in this chastity pledge. Through her actions, Julia has been deceiving the Party for a long time, as well as deceiving Big Brother for she has not been caught for 12 years, until her and Winston’s affair becomes known to the Thought Police.

Winston and Julia are two of the main characters in the novel 1984 set in Oceania Airstrip one , who are against the party and rebellious against big brother. Both Julia and Winston are rebelling against Big brother, but for different reasons. In the

Julia and Winston managed to meet up out of view of the telescreen and determined a place to rendezvous, this started their forbidden love affair. “Life as she saw it was quite simple. You wanted a good time; ‘they, ' meaning the Party, wanted to stop you having it; you broke the rules as best you could” (Orwell 165). Julia was not so much interested in widespread rebellion; she simply wanted to outwit the party and enjoy herself, unlike Winston who wanted everyone to rebel.

book, living in a one-bedroom apartment. Smith is miserable and keeps an incriminating journal of all negative thoughts of the Party, if caught Smith will be vaporized, he will become an unperson. One day in the office he noticed a dark haired woman staring at him, she is “Julia”. Smith hates her, he desires to rape her and murder her. Winston feels she’s a member of the Thought Police and that she is spying on him ready to denounce him. Her youth and decorative Anti-Sex League (Party League that degrades on the pleasures derived from sexual intercourse) sash disgusts him. Months later Winston bumps into Julia and she slips a note into his hand; the note says “I love you”. They make arrangements to meet and

In the novel 1984 written by George Orwell, the main character Winston, and his lover Julia possess many similar aspects, but at the same time share totally different views. As we advance through the novel, we can see their audacious acts against the Party together and the unexpected heartbreaking split at the end. The multiple characteristics of these two characters range from their courageous acts against the Party and their need for freedom, to the reasons behind their actions and their hopes for the future. Although Winston and Julia are similar in some areas, they are very different in others. To begin with, Winston and Julia both daringly perform taboo acts against the Party’s standards.

As Winston is captured by the government, he is told that there are three stages of his “reintegration”; learning, understanding, and acceptance. Winston refuses to betray his lover Julia until the last stage as he yells to his tormentors, “Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! I don’t care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia. Not me!” (300). , Orwell) Spewing such harsh and petrifying phrases about his past lover, showcases that Winston under the torment and oppression of the Party has capitulated and accepted Big Brother while breaking the final bonds of his romantic relationship with Julia. Instilling oppression on romantic love ensures that the citizens of Oceania love Big Brother and the government with their full capacity; confirming that the individual will never favour their loved one over the government. Once a courageous individual rebelling against the government, using his relationship with Julia as a weapon, now merrily a shadow of his former past, broken down by the oppression instilled by the government. By betraying his lover, Julia, Winston demonstratesions that the government has won. Contradictory to his initial feeling towards Big Brother, Winston’s love is now dedicated towards the government. In the aftermath of his “reintegration”, “[Winston] loved Big Brother,” (311) , Orwell) leaving no additional room in his damaged heart for Julia. However, Winston is not the only character who suffers with the decision of betraying their loved