Winston And Julia In George Orwell's 1984

In a totalitarian society where love, compassion, and intimacy are not permitted- two people manage to find each other. In George Orwell’s novel 1984, Winston and Julia are an unlikely match who would likely be incompatible in a normal, “free”society. While they are united in their passionate hatred for their society’s government (known as “the party”), they are complete opposites in their vision to overthrow or rebellion of it.
Winston has a different view on the party than other people, he works at the Ministry of Truth so he knows exactly what happened in the past before history gets rewritten. “All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.” (Pg.40) The party would always manipulate the truth to benefit themselves. At first Oceania was at war with a particular enemy and the next they were at war with a totally different enemy. Everyone in this society was being brainwashed and lied to. Winston was …show more content…
She had multiple affairs with party member and had fun doing it. “ ‘Yes, always with Party members.’ ”(pg.125) Julia was explaining to Winston how she's always had sexual intercourse with all party members and Winston told her that the more men she would sleep with the more he was attracted to her. To Julia sex is something that she adores and because you can't have sex unless the party says you can, it made it better for her because she is breaking the rules. “She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long after you were dead, that from the moment of declaring war on the party it was better to think of yourself as a corpse.” (Pg.135) Julia doesn't want to mess with the party because if she's having a good time and the party isn't bothering her then she is going to rebel against the party instead of destroying the