Jason Moothy GCSE English
George Orwells 1984 Prose Assignment
Question 1. Analyse the importance of Winston and Julia‘s relationship in the novel. How does it contrast with the oppressive regime around them?
In the novel Winston Smith was a quiet man in his late thirties , something of and intellectual , who nurses a secret hatred of the party in the face of the party continual alteration of document when he meet Julia he finds an outlet both for his heretical opinions and for the love he yearns to share with another human being.
The Character of Julia in the 1984 is a young woman of 26 year old. She is very jealous of her apparent which devotion to the party that Winston suspects that she is a member of the thought police. Julia seems to follow Winston that Winston was thinking that maybe Julia also has a secret rebel love with Winston. Julia’s view of life is very different from Winston she is not an intellectual given to long ruminations on the absurdity of the party and its society but she is gifted with a native intelligence that enables her to see something Winston does not. In many ways she is a contrast to Winston. She is young healthy .vibrant full of spunk and lust for life. They both shared the hatred for the party binds them with a tie they think nothing can break. Julia is arrested and moved to the ministry of love where she suffers the horrors of room 101 and is forced to betray Winston.