All authors of the different forms of literature try to ensure they bring forth originality in their respectable works but also deliver a valuable message that all readers can relate to. These valuable messages occasionally relate to family, adversity, love, or struggle. Common themes are constantly found across the different forms of literature, how these themes are created, however, can range in diction, figurative language, and overall presentation. In poetry, the poet uses rhyme scheme, and figurative language to deliver the theme. In a novel, on the other hand, the author uses plot, characterization, and symbolism to create their theme. No matter the structure of a work of literature, the authors can reach a common theme. “Joy of my life, …show more content…
In the novel, a totalitarianism government has taken over and Winston Smith is a member of the Outer Party. Julia, the dark-haired girl whom Winston believes to be against him, secretly hands him a note that reads, "I love you." Winston really wants to meet her, and when they finally do, Julia makes a complicated plan so they can be alone. Once they are out of view of the Party, Winston and Julia make love and begin their allegiance against Big Brother. They fall in love and believe that the love and loyalty they feel for each other can never be taken from them. Later on, Winston finds himself deep inside the Ministry of Love where he is to be tortured. Finally, O'Brien takes Winston to Room 101, the most dreaded room of all in the Ministry of Love, the place where prisoners meet their greatest fear. When Winston screams, "Do it to Julia!" he relinquishes his last vestige of humanity. Throughout the plot, Winston is placed onto a higher pedestal as he falls in love with Julia and feels free from the tyranny of the party. His reason for being with her is to disobey the Party and to fulfill someone else’s sexual
The Party is also able to destroy love outside of marriage such as that between Winston and Julia. Their relationship begins as hatred, blooms into a fulfilling love, and then is transformed into indifference. The entire progression of their feelings towards each other is manufactured by the Party. During their first unrecorded meeting, Winston offers a "love offering" (100) by telling Julia what his feelings were before they met: "I hated the sight of you... I wanted to rape you and then murder you afterwards" (101). The mask that Julia put on to fool the authorities into thinking that she was a good citizen also fooled Winston. As a result, he hated her for conforming so whole-heartedly like his wife did. But after he realizes that was just a facade that she put on to fool others, Winston falls completely in love with her. They take enormous risks to be together first in the countryside and then in an apartment rented from a prole. When the couple is questioned by O 'Brien before their acceptance into the Brotherhood, they quickly agree to commit a whole list of atrocities including to "throw sulfuric acid in a child 's face," to "commit murder," and even to "commit suicide" (142) if doing so would help destroy the Party
In the end of the book, Julia and Winston are caught by the thought police and are sent to the Ministry of Love. They are then separated and tortured extensively. Winston goes through the normal stage of torture and he does not break like the party wanted him to. The party then decides to send him to room 101. In this room he is faced with his worst fear.
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.
Julia and Winston awake in a cell, tied next to each other. The deadening, filthy, horrid cell inside the Ministry of Love. Winston focuses and regains full concentration. He shakes Julia and brings her to the identical state as himself. They both look at each other, with determination to finish things forever.
Finally, O'Brien takes Winston to Room 101, the most dreaded room of all in the Ministry of Love, the place where prisoners meet their greatest fear. Winston's greatest fear is rats. O'Brien places over Winston's head a mask made of wire mesh and threatens to open the door to release rats on Winston's face. When Winston screams, "Do it to Julia!" he
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
As their story goes on, Julia comes forth proclaiming she is the same as Winston, in the sense that her hatred and rebellion are on the same levels. Their relationship represents a form of rebellion because sexual relations between men and women in Oceania are looked down upon. It does not just lie in their physical relationship, but emotionally. They express to each other throughout the book how much they matter to one another, and how they are in love. They find ways around the constant surveillance to meet up with each other.
Even though he is married, he and Julia have an affair that combines their personal desires as well as their desire to fight against the Party as it is explicitly stated in the novel. Winston and Julia both willingly participate in the affair because they are both moved to action by the Party’s acts of injustice. Winston is aware that the Party has blatantly outlawed “love” and Winston wants to feel romance in order to spite the Party. Both Julia and Winston would do anything to spite Big Brother. In addition to the love factor, Winston isn’t just participating because Julia is youthful, more so because he is drawn to the act of power. Winston isn’t just resisting power, he feels the need to hold
The year is 1984, but this world is completely different. Certain phrases and thoughts are banned, any sort of rebellion against the government is entirely banned with harsh punishments and human freedom is non-existent. Winston knows this is wrong as he says “All beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the Party and prevent the true nature of present-day society from being perceived.” But he does not possess the power to make a change. What does he do then, fight for his cause, stay quiet, or rebel?
After trying to join an underground group fighting Big Brother with his lover, Julia, they are both caught and taken to the Ministry of Love, which is essentially a type of prison. Winston is tortured for an unknown period of time, and undergoes physical and mental corruption. When he nears the end of his time, he is taken to room 101, where his worst nightmare is held, and he can only be saved if he betrays Julia. In order to save his own life, he does. Winston then goes into a dreamlike state where he remains until he is truly in love with Big Brother.
Winston a grey and rough skinned, emaciated, fearful, thirty nine year old man with a varicose ulcer on his leg, who hated a woman named Julia. Winston described her as not handsome, attractive, natural looks, and he liked her hips. Winston has many thoughts about mortally wounding her. (Winston) Julia a twenty six year old woman, known as a rebel from the waist down and she’s a product of the Party. Julia wanted to experience love with someone, in this case Winston. Why did Julia like Winston? One reason Julia liked Winston happened to occur because he wanted to revolt against the party. (How) Winston’s rebellion takes place on a more "intellectual" level than does Julia 's. (How is) Winston hated
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.
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
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
He continuously has flashbacks to a sexual experience with a Prole prostitute that increases his desire to have an enjoyable sexual experience with someone. Winston’s hate for the Party continues to grow when he feels this desire because he wants to be his own person rather than what the Party has made him into. Readers are first introduced to Julia when Winston is walking home and a girl is following him. Another act of rebellion and paranoia is seen when he imagines hitting the girl and when he arrives home, he has thoughts of committing suicide because that would be better than the Thought Police torturing him. Readers are again introduced to Julia when Winston walks to the bathroom and sees her again.