1984 Julia Character Analysis

The Dystopian novel 1984 (By George Orwell) is about a man named Winston, and his physical and psychological struggles with the dictating rulers of his society called The Party. Unlike our society The Party eliminates all opinions and emotions. Our society could never be like The Party, because people at this point in time are too opinionated and become too offended over the smallest things. Winston’s story begins with the purchase of an illegal book from an antique shop. In this diary he expresses his hatred of big brother, which over the course of the story grows and becomes Winston’s motive for betraying The Party. Later on in the story Winston comes out of his solitude, but this is only when he meets his co-protagonist Julia. She uses simple …show more content…
Winston assumes that he will be caught by the thought police in the end, and without any real friends or family, he feels that he has no purpose in life. The only person he is close to is Julia and she encourages his fatalism, so rather than trying to prevent being caught by the thought police, he “throws all caution to the wind” and disregards all of society’s rules. For example in part two chapter three Winston decides to rent out the apartment above Mr. Charrington’s shop, live there, and actively have sex with Julia. These are three things that if caught by the thought police would get you in a large amount of trouble in the party. Winston does these things anyway, even though he knows that he will be caught and possibly vaporized. The fatalism he experiences throughout the book slowly morphs into a psychotic and morbid way of thinking, which is later on encouraged by O’brien. “There is learning, there is understanding, and there is acceptance” (Orwell 215), these are words uttered by O'brien when he is brainwashing Winston. The brainwashing takes Winston's already mentally ill thought process and pushes it into the extremes, he has strong outbursts and feelings of anger and hatred towards big brother at the end of the story. His addiction and abuse of alcohol also becomes more extreme later on in the …show more content…
This is related to another message given to the readers by the author, in a world without truths, a person will believe anything without question. An example of this is the five minutes of hate rally. During the peech a messenger runs into the rally and hands a slip of paper to the spokesman. The people were so engulfed in the excitement that they didn't care who was hated, in a matter of minutes they tear down all of the posters and hate against one country and target another country that was their ally up until that point. There may not have even been any truth in the message passed on by the messenger, but the people didn't care, all they needed was a target and an adrenaline