1984 Compare And Contrast Essay

Improved Essays
1. Julia and Winston have noticed each other for quite a while, and Winston watches her during the two minutes of hate and hates her for being so loyal to the party. Julia approached to Winston because she “knew [Winston was] against them”(122), the Party, and Julia also “hated the Party ”(131). She also observes him and assumes he is not a loyal member as well. Their first actual encounter came after the two minutes of hate when they run into each other and they both fall down. Later on he realizes that she slipped a note into his pocket, which read, “I love you”. The similarities between Julia and Winston are that they both reject laws that govern thought and action and are both rebellious to the party. They are different because Winston is cautious and fearful, Julia is a risk taker, …show more content…
Mr. Charrington betrayed Julia and Winston because he is a member of the thought police who arrests citizens who are against the party. He allowed Winston and Julia to use one of his rooms, stating that it did not have a telescreen, but in reality, there were hidden cameras which recorded all of the discussions that Winston and Julia had regarding their rebellious ideas and thoughts about the party. He had disguised himself as an old man, but was an undercover member of the police. “He was still recognizable, but he was not the same person any longer”(224). His character represents the betraying society that no one can trust.
10. A) The thrush bird symbolizes the pleasure of attaining freedom through the bird. It displays the beauty of freedom through music and reflects peace. “For whom, for what, was the bird singing? No mate, no rival watching it” (124). It represents individuality and its unconcerned attitude towards others.
B) The picture of the church represents the lost past and the song ends with the words “Here comes the chopper to chop off your head!” (167) This foreshadows that the telescreen is hidden behind he picture, symbolizing the party’s control of the

Related Documents

  • Superior Essays

    People claim that eyes in a picture tend to follow their every step, but perhaps one day they realize that they might really be real eyes. George Orwell’s science-fiction novel, 1984, introduces the character known as Winston who struggles with accepting the surroundings presented to him in the dystopian society of Oceania. Winston notices how the government, the Party, utilizes its resources as to watch upon the people through telescreen, drone, and even children, causing Winston to continuously worry whether or not he behaves “well”. He later notes the irony behind the jobs of the four Ministries in that each of them conduct tasks that completely void their purpose, such as how the Ministry of Truth alters the truth and how the Ministry…

    • 1599 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Winston yearns to become part of the brotherhood but Julia wants completely different than what he wants. She (as well as Mildred) go into a dark corner of our main characters minds. They become 2nd. Mildred although she had her TV and…

    • 325 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Canteen Eighty-Four 1984

    • 675 Words
    • 3 Pages

    At the end of novel, Winston has completely changed; he no longer feels love for Julia and most of his emotions are dead. All he is left with is his love for Big Brother. Winston, the main character of the novel, starts out as a normal Outer Party member who is not much different from any other Party member. He wears the required overall blue Party uniform and works at the Recording Department in the Ministry of truths (his job is to fabricate information to support Big Brother), and eats disgusting synthetic food in the canteen every…

    • 675 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    They don’t have anything in common, but they united by one thing that is they both that the Party and the laws. Winston is a married, middle age man who wife has disappeared, but he don’t care. Everything that he is doing he have to think about it because he scare that the Thought Police will catch him. While he scare of the result of his action at the same time he want to know about lives before the Revolution. However, Julia is a young and attractive lady.…

    • 673 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Winston would pretend to preach and live by the Party’s beliefs and rules outwardly, but inside, he would question and try to revolt against the Party. Kate Chopin’s motif s “that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions,” can be directly applied to Winston. This contributed to the tension in the novel as a whole, because it was the main source of conflict for the main…

    • 413 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    It is evident that they had a greater impression on the lives of the citizens than first known. Even someone like Winston, who is trying to go against the Party, is affected by the Party and their restrictions. Their influence created a sense of endangerment permanently linked to relationships. Julia and Winston had to hide their relationship in order to save their own lives. However, when the duo was eventually caught, in fear of his upcoming fate, Winston gave up his lover.…

    • 703 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    This relationship has many readers taken by surprise, due to Winston’s initial hatred toward her. But, as time goes on it becomes clear that Winston hates Julia out of envy because she has something Winston doesn’t: composure, adolescence, and boldness. We eventually find out they have more in common than initially thought. To begin, Winston and Julia are both individuals that seek to rebel against the party, even though their motives are different. Winston’s rebellion is selfless.…

    • 1140 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    This beautifully shows the amount of hatred that Winston has comparing to the amount Julia has. In exact details, Winston rebels in the ways that would eventually take down “The Party”. He starts off by writing in his diary. All of his feelings, hopes, and dreams go here. As the story progresses, he escalates to wanting to have sexual intercourse again.…

    • 1034 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    For Winston, this is Julia, and for Ishmael, this is both Esther and Laura. Winston struggles in the beginning of the novel because he feels alone. He feels as though everyone believes the Party except him so he has no one to talk to about his opposition against the government without being turned into the thoughtpolice. After very few interactions with Julia, Winston receives a note from her that reads, “I love you” (IN-TEXT CITATIONS). Their relationship budds from this note, through secret meetings.…

    • 1944 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Prior to interacting, learning and even loving Julia and Clarisse, both protagonists did not lead a relational life. The great connection and bond they share with these women allow them to feel validated love and understanding by another person which sparks their new outlook on their lives and their own personalities, resulting in further doubt/question in their relationships (with their wives) and the shallowness of society. Where Winston represents the anti-hero, being meek, depressed and fearful “silent majority,” Julia is more fatalistic, bold and therefore brave. She allows Winston to feel love, have hope, trust and no longer be repressed. Julia’s teachings on what the Party do not want you to feel make Winston realize what he has been missing and how he is interested in sex as an act of rebellion with Julia which instills happiness, hope and drive within him; “If you’re happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three- Year Plan and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?”…

    • 1068 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I have seldom seen anyone come over to us so promptly. 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. It was a perfect conversion, a textbook case" (Orwell 259). Julia’s betrayal of Winston is demonstrative of the fragility of even the strongest loyalty; loyalty that she swore would never be swerved even under extreme…

    • 908 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Outer Party

    • 1116 Words
    • 5 Pages

    When Winston was planning on rebelling in secret with Julia, Winston tells Julia that “I hate purity. I hate goodness. I don’t want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones” (127). These characteristics…

    • 1116 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    1984 Figurative Language

    • 742 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Previously, Winston loved Julia but when Winston’s biggest fear comes alive he knows that he has to deceive Julia. Thus, his morality towards Julia is ultimately shattered. O’Brien’s betrayal to Winston is shown when he deceives Winston that he is part of the anti-Party Brotherhood. But, when Winston is called to the meeting he soon finds out that O’Brien has cunningly deluded him.…

    • 742 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    He writes in his diary because he must voice his thoughts about the Party and there is nowhere else he can do so under their unrelenting eye. Julia on the other hand is fine with her life because she has found a way to appease both of these desires to a degree of relative symmetry. The relationship between conformity and dissent is an equilibrium; (*) when one is faced with a lack on one aspect and a surplus of another, the individual shall strive to resolve the conflict by attempting to equalize the balance. When Winston starts meeting up with Julia he forms a strong connection to her.…

    • 1221 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Published just four years apart, with 1984 in 1949 and Fahrenheit 451 in 1953, Ray Bradbury and George Orwell shared many ideas about how a dystopian society may function. Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 show a number of similarities and some differences based on Orwell and Bradbury’s ideas, which the reader can easily point out while reading each novel. Over 50 years later, one may observe the two side-by-side and identify the parallels between them, including everything from character development to plot structure. Some even find it hard to believe that Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, published years after 1984, took no inspiration from Orwell. Each book contains a daring protagonist, an equally daring counterpart, an oppressive government, and an…

    • 1136 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays