Analysis Of The Novel ' 1984 ' By George Orwell

This shows that Julia has deeply thought about the motives behind the Party’s strict control, and strongly opposes it. This is the reason behind why Julia commits an offense against the Party by having sex regularly. When Julia is asked by Winston about if she had sex before, she states, “Of course. Hundreds of times - well scores of times anyway” (Orwell ). This implies that Julia has been rebelling against the party for a long time, and further supports the claim that she hates the current government

Here Orwell uses metaphor to emphasize how unoppressed Winston felt despite his constricted surroundings. Making love with Julia was a sign of rebellion against the party and demonstrating his freedom, making him feel joyful. This emphasis implies that his happiness came from the freedom he felt while making love. Therefore, this reveals to us that you have to be free or feel free to be in love, and can not be restricted or bound by rules.

The fictional novel, 1984 by George Orwell is about a world run by a totalitarian government, called the Party, which takes away all the freedoms of its citizens by watching over them with high surveillance technology. In addition, the Party uses dishonesty and betrayal to expose people’s true feelings of Oceania, the country where the story takes place. Betrayal is seen throughout society in Oceania through government manipulation and actions made by Winston, Julia and O’Brien, the main characters. Winston’s true self-betrayal comes when he realizes his new passionate love for Big Brother, the leader of the Party and Oceania. The Party fears a rebellion against them, as a result they use different methods to eliminate trust between

In this quote you can see that Winston does truly care for Julia. He started sleeping with her in order to rebel. However, he grew to love her and by doing so he has committed an even greater act of rebellion, as the Party does everything it can to destroy feelings of empathy and loyalty between individuals. This is because all such attention should be focused on the Party itself. Sexual urges open the door to love and

Winston hates the fact that she lives according to the Party’s teachings, considering he has many unorthodox opinions. Winston is evidently not content with his relationship with Katherine because he believes that marriage must be based on trust and love, rather than the fulfillment of the Party’s expectations. Winston finally realizes what it is like to feel for someone other than Big Brother when he encounters Julia. At first, Winston assumes that Julia is an agent of the Thought Police or of the Brotherhood, but it is not until he reads the note saying “I love you” that his thoughts change. It is extremely difficult for Winston and Julia to make plans due to the constant surveillance, so they spend time with each other by inhabiting the apartment over Mr. Charrington’s shop. For Winston, it is nice to know that there are people like him in Oceania, which is why Julia gives him a reason to stay alive. His health conditions also benefit from his love affair since “the process of life had ceased to be intolerable, he had no longer any impulse to make faces at the telescreen or shout curses at the top of his voice” (Orwell 150). Unfortunately, Winston begins to understand that Julia is not on the same page as him when it comes to the Party. There is no doubt that Julia hates the Party, however she makes no general criticism of it.

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 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

Winston’s outlook on the Party was very new and undefined. He had vague suspicions about the Party’s honesty, but he did not know how to obtain evidence that would bring their intents to light. Before Julia, Winston’s sole method of rebellion was writing in a journal. “Releasing his fury, Winston triumphs over fear by setting pen to paper in the essential rebellion that contains all other crimes in itself, thoughtcrime” (19). It worked for Winston, but it was not active. Julia, on the other hand, had rebelling down to a science. She had been defying for about a decade, and had developed firm beliefs on why she hated the Party. She understood the Party’s lies and had reasons to reject them, whereas Winston did not possess that ability. Winston and Julia’s difference in experience with negative feelings towards the Party caused them to express their emotions in very different

The book, 1984 by George Orwell, is about the external and internal conflicts that take place between the two main characters, Winston and Big Brother and how the two government ideas of Democracy and totalitarianism take place within the novel. Orwell wrote the novel around the idea of communism/totalitarianism and how society would be like if it were to take place. In Orwell’s mind democracy and communism created two main characters, Winston and Big Brother. Big Brother represents the idea of the totalitarian party. In comparison to Big Brother, Winston gives and represents the main thought of freedom, in the novel Winston has to worry about the control of the thought police because he knows that the government with kill anyone who

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.

Another crucial part of this book shows how the party tried to take away the joy and emotion from the acts of love. This was seen as a supreme way of expressing one’s inner emotion, and this could be a tremendous threat to the party. “The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion ” A section also revealed when Winston witnessed the party lying and this helped bring about his thoughts and accusations. He struggled, because he understood how they do all of it, but didn’t understand what the ultimate goal of all their actions were. Winston later went to the place where he bought his diary, a shop full of antiques that brought a sense of the past back to the present day. He soon realized that the proles had much more freedom than everyone else, because the party saw them as lesser beings. “If there is hope it lies in the proles” Not all of society was strictly monitored, like the proles, so this gave them the freedom to live a “normal” life. However, Winston soon meets a certain woman that will change his life and allow him to rebel against the party in the greatest and most dangerous way.

Through all the relationships suppressed throughout the novel, romantic relationships are the most dangerous to the Party. As Julia pursues a relationship with Winston out of a deeply imbedded desire to rebel against the society she hates, Winston finds a light inside him that eventually causes him to take bigger steps towards overthrowing the government. These kind of relationships are especially malicious to Big Brother because the magnificent emotions of love and lust the party wants to destroy inevitably fill these rebels with a sense of excitement and pleasure. The first example of this in the text is when Julia tells Winston, “When you make love you’re using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don’t give a damn for anything. They can’t bear

from the very first moment of seeing” (12). Throughout the novel, women are portrayed as lacking morals and being sexually liberated creatures. According to the novel, “with Julia, everything came back to her own sexuality” (110) and she is “only a rebel from the waist down” (129). The first time Julia lures Winston to the Golden Country, she admits to bringing men there “hundreds of times,” (104) likely with the intent to seduce them. Winston even claims to Julia that “the more men you’ve had, the more I love you” (104) and “[he] doesn’t want any virtue to exist anywhere. [He wants] everyone to be corrupt to the bones,” (104) suggesting that Winston places a woman’s worth on her lack of morals. Aside from Julia, the women of the proles are portrayed as prostitutes who care only for drugs, alcohol and sex. Winston says that “the poorer quarters swarmed with women who were ready to sell themselves” (56). In Winston’s experience with a prostitute, he writes that “she was quite an old woman… but I went ahead and did it just the same,” (60) not caring for the woman’s value, but only wishing to fulfill his desire for sex. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Winston is extremely with his wife, Katherine, when her morals dictate that sex is only for “making a baby” (58) and fulfilling their “duty to the Party” (58). No matter how a woman holds herself in the society of 1984, she is wrong in the eyes of a

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

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.