Furthermore, they have always known that they will get caught because of their actions and thoughts. One day Winston and Julia talk about that day that they will get caught. Winston is afraid to betray Julia and stop loving her. After that Julia says that the Thought Police can make a person say anything but the Thought Police cannot make him believe the things that he says and therefore they will never betray each other (Orwell, 128, Heinemann). Nevertheless, O’Brain can get inside Winston. He believes in the power of the Party and betrays Julia in Room 101. Winton gives Julia’s name to be tortured. He wants to make his pain stop. And when they see each other, they both confess their betrayal. They both know that they mean every single word of the things that they have said. They have said these things to stop their own pain: “…they threaten you with something- something you can’t stand up to, can’t even think about. And then you say, ‘Don’t do it to me, do it to someone else, do it to Sand so.’ And perhaps you might pretend, afterward, that it was only a trick and you just said it to make them stop and didn’t really mean it. But that isn’t true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there is no other way of saving yourself, and you’re quite ready to save yourself that way, you want it to happen to the other person. You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself…(Orwell, 226, Heinemann)”. After that day, they try to arrange another meeting but they both know that their feelings towards each other are not the same anymore. They have changed and they don’t love each other as they used to.
Even though it seems like both Julia and Winston are against the party, they differ in the way of their rebellion. This difference is mainly constructed because of the age difference between them; Winston is old enough to remember the time before the revolution and therefore can long for the past days where Julia has grown up during the revolution so she does not have the memories of the “good old days”.
Winston thinks of this rebellion way before their relationship. He dreams of a girl rebelling to annihilate the party: “…What overwhelmed him in that instant was admiration for the gesture with which she had thrown her clothes aside. With its grace and carelessness it seems to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system off thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of arm… (Orwell, 24, Heinemann)”. He is committing a thought-crime, the most unpardonable crime that one can commit, consciously; he is writing in his diary.
In addition, he has hopes that Proles can form a union and rebel. He writes in his diary of a past memory when he was walking down the street and heard a scream and thought it was the beginning of a riot. Nevertheless, deeply inside he knows that this riot will never happen because “until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious (Orwell, 54, Heinemann)”. Winston knows that while writing in his diary he is committing thought-crime, being monitored by the telescreen when he has his dreams and will be caught by the Thought Police for his actions. He knows he is going to be tortured and killed in the end but he thinks that he can deceive O’Brian and die hating Big Brother. This will be a personal victory for him: “…He obeyed the Party, but he still hated the Party… (Orwell, 216, Heinemann)”.
On the other hand, Julia seems a little less passionate about this rebel. She is not interested in a widespread rebellion; she is just into outwitting the party, enjoying herself. She is not ready to face the consequences of their acts. She does not want to separate with Winston. When O’Brian asks them whether they are prepared to separate and not see each other ever again, Julia instantly says “no” where Winston hesitates: “…It appeared to Winston that a long time passed before he answered. For a moment he seemed even to have been deprived of the power of speech. His tongue worked soundlessly, forming the opening syllables first of the word, then the other, over and over again. Until he had said it, he did not know which word he was going to say. ‘No,’ he said finally… (Orwell, 133, Heinemann)”. As it can be seen from the quotation that one may say Julia is more into their relationship than she is into the rebellion where Winston is the one who is more interested in the actual act they are planning.
What is more, Julia does not seem to believe Emanuel Goldstein’s brotherhood is an actual organization. She believes that it is something that the Party invented as a “common enemy”. She also does not know who he actually is and what he does. She only has the dimmest thoughts about him. She says almost everyone hates the Party but has no courage to show their feeling: “…she took it for granted that everyone, merely everyone, secretly hated the Party and would break the rules if thought it safe to do so. But she refused to believe that a widespread organization existed, or could exist. The tales about Goldstein and his underground army, she said, were simply a lot of rubbish which the Party had invented for its own purposes and which you had to believe in… (Orwell, 1117, Heinemann)”.
All in all, two people with the same goal, Winston and Julia form the “Nineteen Eighty Four” by Goerge Orwell, differ in the way of their rebellion. They also alter in their opinion about the relationship they have. Their approach to the act and the thought of rebelling is also different. Nevertheless, their end is similar; they both become a “good” member of the Party. Without acknowledging that they have been brain-washed, they start to obey the rules and become the citizens as the Party wants them to be. In other words, one may say that though the path they have passed is different, the place that they have arrived is the same; the point where “love” and obedience to the Big Brother meet.
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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty Four. Heinemann Publisher, 1990.
