The Profundity of the Female Characters: Julia & Kathy
The novels 1984 by George Orwell and Zeitoun by Dave Eggers both depict the dangers and misery in a dystopian society. Orwell takes time to build a society that is repulsive of ethos, to maintain power. While Eggers tries his best to recreate the story of a Muslim-American husband, Zeitoun, and wife, Kathy, as they go through a series of trials when they are apart at the time where New Orleans fell into a dystopian existence in 2005. In 1984 it is clear to detect the male perspective that Orwell imposed onto his characters but most specifically Julia. Although she presented strength in many ways through her choices and independence with choices beyond what the Party wanted to internalize in her, Orwell displays weakening aspects that may be …show more content…
Firstly, Orwell displays the theme of repression in his female character Julia early in the book based on poor representation of woman his male character Winston established. Orwell gave me as a reader a false sense of womanhood with this downgrading male perspective embedded in this character Julia. I caught this perspective early in the book: “Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. He knew the reason . It was because of the atmosphere of hockey-fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean-mindedness which she managed to carry about her. He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy” (Orwell 11). Theres this large sense of loss when it comes to the possesed charicatistics verses her sex. That made the character undergo much development and flat. It was a bit strange to read about her sometimes, something was not right and a bit off every time she was displayed in the book. It is only after her first sexual experience and life in hostel was
The novels 1984 by George Orwell and Zeitoun by Dave Eggers both depict the dangers and misery in a dystopian society. Orwell takes time to build a society that is repulsive of ethos, to maintain power. While Eggers tries his best to recreate the story of a Muslim-American husband, Zeitoun, and wife, Kathy, as they go through a series of trials when they are apart at the time where New Orleans fell into a dystopian existence in 2005. In 1984 it is clear to detect the male perspective that Orwell imposed onto his characters but most specifically Julia. Although she presented strength in many ways through her choices and independence with choices beyond what the Party wanted to internalize in her, Orwell displays weakening aspects that may be …show more content…
Firstly, Orwell displays the theme of repression in his female character Julia early in the book based on poor representation of woman his male character Winston established. Orwell gave me as a reader a false sense of womanhood with this downgrading male perspective embedded in this character Julia. I caught this perspective early in the book: “Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. He knew the reason . It was because of the atmosphere of hockey-fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean-mindedness which she managed to carry about her. He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy” (Orwell 11). Theres this large sense of loss when it comes to the possesed charicatistics verses her sex. That made the character undergo much development and flat. It was a bit strange to read about her sometimes, something was not right and a bit off every time she was displayed in the book. It is only after her first sexual experience and life in hostel was