Over the coming weeks, they arrange several brief meetings in the city. At a rendezvous in a ruined church, Julia tells Winston about living in a hostel with thirty other girls, and about her first illicit sexual encounter.
Unlike Winston, Julia is not interested in widespread rebellion; she simply likes outwitting the party and enjoying herself. She explains to Winston that the Party prohibits sex in order to channel the sexual frustration of the citizenry into fervent opposition to Party enemies and impassioned worship of Big Brother. Winston tells Julia about a walk he once took with his ex-wife Katherine, during which he thought about pushing her off of a cliff. He says that it would not have mattered whether he pushed her or not, because it is impossible to win against the forces of oppression that govern their lives.
War unites the citizens in opposition against some shadowy foreign evil while also making it impossible for its subjects to meet or exchange ideas with citizens from other countries, since the only foreigners in London are prisoners of war.
The opening of Book Two, in which Winston meets Julia and begins the erotic affair he has so deeply desired, commences the main section of the novel and strikes an immediate contrast between the two lovers.
Unlike Winston, Julia is neither overly speculative about, nor troubled by, the Party. Rather, she possesses a mix of sensuality and practicality that enables her to plan their affair with ruthless efficiency and then enjoy it with abandon. She accepts the Party and her life for what it is, and tries to make the best of a situation that cannot be greatly improved.
Though he considers her somewhat self-absorbed, Winston is thrilled that Julia has had so many affairs with so many Party members. Ace your assignments with our guide to ! SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. We look to as a clear cautionary tale, even a prophecy, of systematic abuse of power taken to the end of the line. Big Brother does not actually get the last word. But it changes our whole understanding of the novel. Written from some unspecified point in the future, it suggests that Big Brother was eventually defeated.
The victory is attributed not to individual rebels or to The Brotherhood, an anonymous resistance group, but rather to language itself. But it never comes to pass. Because it was too difficult to translate Oldspeak literature into Newspeak.
The text Orwell singles out to exemplify this, intriguingly, is the Declaration of Independence. As long as we have a nuanced, expansive system of language, Orwell claims, we will have freedom and the possibility of dissent. This appeal to the integrity of language and principled thought may sound utopic or academic, but we are currently in the midst of a similar struggle. Winston finds himself staring into the eyes of an aged prisoner instead of Julia's eyes as he would like, but he cannot risk looking directly at her.
Part One was primarily about Winston, his motives, fears, desires, work life, and nature. This and the next couple of chapters develop Julia's character, which serves as a comparison and a contrast with Winston's character.
Unlike Winston, Julia has no pre-Party history; consequently, she is a product of the developing political order. As a co-conspirator with Winston, Julia contrasts him in personality. Whereas Winston is pessimistically fatalistic, Julia is optimistically more matter of fact and accepts her lot for what it is. Julia is sensual, sexual, and practical. She and Winston will share the erotic affair that Winston has so ardently longed for.
In this chapter, Orwell introduces the true nature of Winston's conflict, which will inevitably lead to his doom. Until now, Winston has been merely another member of the Outer Party, going about his daily routine with little reason to attract attention to himself, except for the unorthodox thoughts inside his head and the diary that he begins in Chapter 1.
Winston now decides to act on his thoughts and feelings and to involve another person, a very risky venture considering the political environment in which he lives.
Winston's rebellion against the Party now involves someone else and is no longer merely a thoughtcrime , but an overt action involving forbidden behavior with another individual. Clearly, the risk has heightened. The suppression of language as communication between and among people, a common theme in the novel, recurs in this chapter with the explanation of how letters are either opened and read or are simply pre-written generic postcards on which the sender strikes out any sentences that do not apply.
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