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Julia And Winston In 1984 By George Orwell

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After Julia and Winston are separated by the Thought Police, he is helpless and weak. After Mr. Charrington exposes Julia and Winston’s disloyalty to the Party, the couple is separated from each other. Winston is then brought to the Ministry of Love, with no knowledge as to where Julia resides. In the Ministry of Love, Winston is adjoined by O’Brien, where he discovers that O’Brien has solely been an enemy of his, rather than a friend. In the Ministry of Love, Winston does not struggle with the physical absence of Julia, as “he hardly ever wondered what was happening to her” (229). What troubles him is the realization that he has nobody. Winston spends a majority of his time in the Ministry with O’Brien being beaten and persecuted. Throughout …show more content…

Whether it is writing in his journal, exchanging glances with O’Brien, or talking to Julia, Winston craves a “person who could be talked to” (252). Despite the extreme amount of torture that O’Brien has inflicted upon him, Winston falls in love with O’Brien’s company. Winston states that whether “O’Brien [is] a friend or enemy” (252), is irrelevant; for, all he cares about is having a source of understanding. However, in order to gain O’Brien’s will to understand, Winston must transform his views to coincide with O’Brien’s. Under this impression, Winston alters his beliefs so that “each new suggestion of O’Brien’s had filled up a patch of emptiness and become absolute truth” (258). Winston’s desire to gain to companionship of O’Brien makes him susceptible to O’Brien’s words, as everything he says “become[s] absolute truth” (258), such as the idea that “2 + 2 = 5” (35). Winston’s conforming to O’Brien’s thinking “fill[s] up a patch of emptiness” (258), and provides him with the sense of unity that he desires. With that said, once Winston subsides to the beliefs of O’Brien, and falls in love, he essentially “love[s] Big Brother” (298) because of the shared beliefs between O’Brien and the Party. Winston’s love for O’Brien is transferred to his love for Big Brother for the greater amount of unity the Party has to

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