Summary Of George Orwell 's ' Orwell '

In the beginning, Winston didn 't like this girl names Julia. She was "a bold-looking girl" about 27 years old, with thick dark hair, a freckled face. At first Winston didn’t like Julia when he met her but, he didn 't know why. He usually didn’t like woman that were young and pretty. Soon Winston realized that he didn’t like her because she had something he didn’t, which was a young, beautiful, strong woman. Winston knew there

Winston starts out the novel with his semi-normal life, hating the Big Brother society and all of their rules. “Winston begins earnestly believing that they cannot get inside you” (Bull 1). Even though there are several telescreens watching him at all times, he still believes that he will not be caught with his thoughtcrimes. Winston demonstrates his internal conflict by picking to save himself instead of the person he loves. When Winston is brought to room 101 he is subjected to his worst possible fear. This includes very large and hungry rats that will eat off his face when the lever is pulled. As O’Brien places the squirming rats in the cage near Winston, he breaks and tells O’Brien to have Julia placed under the same torture he is involved in. His exact words in this situation were, “Do it to Julia. I can’t care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia. Not me!” (Orwell 300). This exhibits that the rebellion is impossible because he is now emotionally and physically dead (Bull 2). To show the extremeness of the internal conflicts that the party provides, when Julia and Winston meet up after all of this was done, Julia said she also cracked and said she wanted Winston to be tortured instead of herself. “His betrayal of Julia in Room 101 and his ultimate profession of love for Big Brother demonstrates that the rebellion is impossible”

Winston walked down the sidewalk, a sense of apathy after his encounter with O’Brian in room 101 on several occasions, a sense of love; apathetic, emotionless love, for Big Brother. Winston did not remember what had happened in Room 101, nor how long he had been there for. Winston headed towards the park where he would meet the dark-haired girl he knew as Julia. Winston had an unexplainable emotion trapped inside his conscious, wanting to break free.

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

Before Winston met Julia, his body was wasting away and he believe he didn’t have anything worth living for. He started a journal and wrote “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” all over a page, even though he knew he would be killed for committing thoughtcrime (19). However, when he sees “the words I love you [on Julia’s note,] the desire to stay alive had welled up in him, and the taking of minor risks suddenly seemed stupid” (91). Not only has Winston’s appetite for life returned because of Julia’s affection, but he becomes physically healthier as well. He “had grown fatter, his varicose ulcer had subsided… [and] his fits of coughing… had stopped” (124). Julia’s love strengthens Winston. After detailed planning to assure the Party could not eavesdrop on their date, Julia and Winston spend a whole afternoon in the countryside together and make love (98-106). This adventure is even more special to them because it is an act of rebellion against the Party, though they realize the fact they are able to be together is all that is important. Through each of their rendezvouses, Winston and Julia’s relationship grows stronger. Whenever they meet, “they [sit] talking for hours” (108). All the time they spend together leads

While interrogating Winston, O’Brien tells him, “[Julia] betrayed you Winston. You would hardly recognize her if you saw her. All her rebelliousness, her deceit, her folly, her dirty-mindedness – everything has been burned out of her” (272). Through systematic torture, Big Brother was able to change everything Julia believes in and who she is as a person. When placed in Room 101 and faced with his greatest fear, rats, Winston exclaims, “Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!” (289). Winston loved Julia, but has been tortured and broken to the point where he is willing to betray her to save himself. As Winston looks up at a picture of Big Brother on a telescreen, he feels happy and safe and acknowledges that “he loved Big Brother” (300). Winston once passionately loved Julia and hated Big Brother, but torture has changed him to accept and love everything the Party says and

Julia is the strongest passion Winston has in his life. Both of them are party rebels and do almost everything in the name of rebellion and freedom. They make love, they talk about their lives and their most taboo thoughts. They are deeply in love, even if they can only express it surreptitiously. Winston

Similarly, while having a relationship with Julia and his inability to doublethink Winston maintains his private virtue in regards with public demand. To start, engaging in affairs with fellow comrades is a crime. Once again Winston disobeys another law when he begins to love Julia. “Their first love making had been simply an act of will. But after the second time it was different. The smell of her hair…” The Party was in complete control of sexual and intimate relations, it was a crime to be in affair that the Party had not assigned. Also, Winston’s love for Julia can be seen while visiting the house of inner Party member O’Brien. While at the residene of O’Brien, Winston and Julia are asked if they will “Split, No” shout the two. Winston

During chapter nine the book is mainly focusing on two sections of the book. “ The Theory and practice of Oligarchical Collectivism.” From Winston's reading, he reads from Karl Marx and Leon Trotsky and their theories on economics, class struggle, and political issues. These issues seem to make the world the same as Oceania, even though both countries call them by different names. To me this builds tension in the book, because everything is so calm and nothing is being questioned, which is different from the rest of the book where everything is always overly thought over. It seems as though Winston has found a secure place. During chapter 9 symbolism and recurring thoughts are shown a lot, like the prole woman Winston saw to be dumb, comes

This moment represents the first time that Winston does something criminal and has doubts about the party. The next major moment is when Winston agrees to have an affair with Julia. Winstons recklessness continues first starting with the diary, then ending with the affair. The last critical scene is when O’Brien finally breaks Winston’s will, putting Winston back in the same place as the start, but without hope.

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

He discovers Julia, whom he falls in love with, and she has the same beliefs as him. Together they find O'Brien-a member of the inner-party, whom-Winston believes-could overthrow "The Party" (the Government), and Big Brother: the supreme governmental leader that may be fictional or may be real, we never know. They become inner-party members but then are betrayed by O'Brien, separated from each other (that's the last we hear of Julia), and Winston is tortured, until he believes the way of the party. He finally is put through enough torture in the Ministry of Love that he gives in, and believes everything the party believes-the past is alterable, the present can change, and that 2+2=5 if they say it is so.

     Tired of feeling the way he is, with the monotonous struggle of everyday life Winston decides to oppose the party in more real ways; and begins to deviate from certain set behaviors to free himself from this bondage of the party. “To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone-to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone”(25-26). He has realized what the government does to people; how everyone is made to be the same, where no one is allowed to think on their own. The party is omnipotent in all affairs and he will not go along with it anymore. Winston has made up his mind; he is going to do everything he can to bring down the party. He and Julia go to O’Brien’s apartment one afternoon, and Winston’s true hatred is revealed. “We believe that there is some kind of conspiracy, some kind of secret organization working against the Party,

Winston fell in love with a woman he worked with named Julia. He and Julia shared the same beliefs and frustrations with the government. They both felt like they needed to rebel against the country's regulations. Winston wanted to outwardly rebel against the government. He wanted to make life better for future generations with freedoms and individuality. Julia knew that cooperating with the party outwardly and rebelling in