Winston's And Julia's Aspects

Orwell's novel "1984" revolves around a middle-aged man called Winston Smith. As the novel progresses, we understand that there is another important character in the book who was a woman that Winston loved, her name was Julia.

The main aspect of Winston is that it is very hard to make him believe others or believe the lies of the Party. He himself remarked "I understand How, I do not understand Why" and this phrase shows us that he followed the rules of the Party to remain alive but did not understand their concepts and why they accomplished what they do. He is also, in a way, slightly paranoid about being watched all the time by the Party and because of this problem he would sit in the corner of his apartment where the telescreen cannot see him and write down all his feelings about the Party in his diary. He also mentioned that since he bought a diary he was "already dead" since he will be caught in the end. He writes about how the Party can use anything against you. He doesn't have any real friends except for Julia, they loved each other. Julia was the only one he felt comfortable to talk to without constricting his thoughts. He is always in doubt whether the Party revolutionized Oceania for the better or for the worse. At the end of the novel, he had "won the victory over himself" showing us that he had completed his change. "He loved Big Brother."

On the other hand Julia differs from Winston in many ways, and the first difference is the age difference because she was twenty six years old and Winston thirty nine years old. She is Winston's love interest and an ally of his in his rebellion against Big Brother. She might have been younger than Winston but she was much more perceptive than him and her characteristics are referred to as pure sexuality, cunning and survival. She was not interested in the past like Winston, she was a "modern" type of girl who only