Topic B
Julia
Julia is much like Winston, both sharing hatred for the Party. She is involved in many organizations such as the Junior Anti-Sex League, and displays herself as being a normal citizen of Oceania . Julia is the ideal citizen on the outside, however on this inside she is a rebel.
Winston’s first impression of Julia was that he hated her, and wanted to kill her. She was the kind of girl who was suspicious of being a member of the Thought Police for the Party because she was young and he wanted to “smash her skull in with a cobblestone” (101). Later, however, he and Julia get to know each other better, and eventually have an affair.
Julia rebels against the Party by having sex. Sex is against the law in this society and is considered to be a terrible thing because the Party “was trying to kill the sex instinct, or, if it could not be killed, then to distort it and dirty it” (66). This is because the Party does not want people to rise up and question the authority. They want people to stick as a unit, and be happy with the life that they are providing for them. This is somewhat successful in a vague sense seeing how they keep this going for a while. But in the end, they were caught, and consequently they are sent to the Ministry of Love where they removed from society. This ultimately shows that the Party is in control of the society. Through this, one can come to the conclusion that in this society, the government has complete dominance over the citizens, making the society a Dystopia.
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