A crime which Winston is fully aware of committing, he wrote, "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER." (1:1:36) Winston, knowing the consequences, he continued on, "It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage." (1:2:37) He then wrote to an audience hoping his thoughts would be passed on someday, “To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free…from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink-greetings!”
While discussing what would happen if they were to be caught by the Thought Police, Winston tells of vivid acts that they would do to get a confession out of the both of them. Winston tell Julia that “[he] confesses, they’ll shoot [her], and if [he] refuse[s] to confess they’ll shoot [her] just the same” (Orwell 166). Winston then goes on in grave detail about what he thinks goes on in the Ministry of Love, he guesses that they is “torture, drugs, [and] delicate instruments that registered [one’s] nervous reaction” so that the truth “could not be kept hidden” from them (Orwell 167). This powerful use of imagery creates a very ominous outlook of Winston’s and Julia’s future to come.
After reading the letter, the two start to meet, which is clearly an act of rebellion against the party. In these meetings more of their and the Party's nature is uncovered, which is an essential part of the story. Eventually, the secret meetings lead to their affair being discovered by the actual Thought Police, and Winston and Julia are taken away for torture and brainwashing and after that the book comes to its
They met up in the square where they see a Eurasian prisoner being tortured by a crowd of people. She gives Winston directions to a place where they can meet instructing him to take a train. Winston and the girl meet in the country their they make love and he tells her the more party members she been with the more he loves her because that would indicate more party member are committing crimes also. Over the next couple of weeks, they arrange times to meet up in the city at a rendezvous in a church. Julia tells Winston about herself and unlike him she is not interested in rebelling the party.
Later in the novel when Winston returns to the junk-shop that he bought the diary in. The fear Winston felt as he returned to the shop is described by Orwell. “A twinge of fear went through him. It had been a sufficiently rash act to buy the book in the beginning, and he had sworn never to come near the place again.” Winston’s feelings of fear are what define him because his reactions to the situation while similar to most is derived from the fear of getting caught by the Thought Police, but when he enters the shop again, his fear of not knowing the past is greater than the fear keeping him out of the shop.
Winston dared not disobey. As the two men left, locking him in the cell once again, he couldn't help but wonder what could be going on. His hopes were higher than they had been in so long, and he imagined a massive crowd, pushing their way into the Ministry of Love, ready to overthrow the Party and release everyone from the misery of its reign. He could only smile as he thought these happy thoughts. It was then he finally noted that not even the telescreen was yelling at him to sit up straight or to wipe the smile off his face.
He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.” (Orwell 298). The only reason that Winston changed his mind was
He is not the person he was before and he has succumbed to the threats of Big Brother. He says “two and two make five” and he believes it to be true, just as the government wants. He is troubled with false memories and does not know what is true and what is told to be true by Big Brother. The party had the ability to “frighten you out of your beliefs, persuading you, almost, to deny the evidence of your senses, (1,7)” and this is just what they did to Winston. Now, he has been trained to only think thoughts that align with the party’s goals, so he loses his sense of rebellion and individuality.
Although Winston is able to grasp the concept of love, he truly understands love when he is with Julia. Initially, Winston sees being with Julia as a political act against the Party. He believes that sex and intimacy goes against the constitutional beliefs of the Party and is therefore an act of defiance. However, as Winston spends more time with Julia, he falls in love. When Winston is caught by O’Brien, he endures prolonged torture without betraying Julia.
Once Julia has given Winston the note that says ‘I love you’ on it, they begin meeting each other in private, but Winston is not sexually attracted to Julia like she is to him; “Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow against the part. It was a political act” (Orwell, 104). In 1984 relationships are forbidden, unless to only reproduce children for the party, making Winston and Julia’s relationship extremely
Through torture and fear, the Party ultimately can remove any and every opposing force and brainwash them into becoming the Party’s biggest tool in systematically rooting out any threats to the Party. After being released from the ministry of love, Julia’s jarring comment about her feelings toward Winston inadvertently illuminates the Party’s ability to not only control the body, but to also control the minds of the people. When Winston and Julia reconnect after being released from the ministry of love, there seems to be an air of repugnance between
Winston continues to disappoint further as because of the lack of his usual paranoia and good instinct in identification of character, he is defeated by Mr. Charrington’s avuncular mask, trusting him even with the notion that the Thought Police and telescreen surveillance is everywhere in the Party’s jurisdiction. His fatalism proves fatal in this scene as he falls with little resistance, allowing Julia to be violently captured in the process, conflicting with what a lover and a hero would normally do. Although unrealistic, it is to my belief that a heroic character would not betray their loved ones as well as themselves, which Winston eventually did as he developed love for Big Brother, detaching the connection he shared with Julia in the final scenes of the
Winston and Obrien have a weird eye connection in the beginning of the book. Julia- Julia and Winston have a secret affair. Winston and Julia Rebel against Big Brother together. Mr. Charrington- Seems to support Winston’s rebellion against the Party and his relationship with Julia. He also rents Winston a room without a television.
Winston knows Julia will have a sexual relationship with him. Thus giving Julia the possession of the sexual possibilities Winston desires. Once Winston and Julia accumulate a relationship, they ultimately get caught and sent to the Ministry of Love, where Winston is tortured into ‘another’ Winston. Julia is what Winston wants; Julia is the reason Winston committed the crime and is sent to room
This also shows how willing Winston is to sacrifice himself for love, as it can end in both of them getting caught. In addition to this, one of the first times that Winston talks about Julia, he begins to feel the rebellion. “Thus, at one moment Winston’s hatred was not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against Big Brother, the Party, and the Thought Police” (Orwell, 14). Publicly revolting in Oceania is extremely dangerous since there is too many telescreens watching over him. “All that they did was to keep alive in him the belief, or hope, that others besides himself were enemies of the Party” (Orwell, 17).
